164833 - Mozilla displays HTTP request response(s) and binary data of other requests when pipelining is on

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 140107

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Steffen Motzer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

Sometimes when I load that page Mozilla at the top displays some binary code of
files that were requested on the same page and HTTP request responses from the
server ( Apache 1.3.12 Cobalt(Unix) ) at the start of the page. After scrolling
down the rest of the page can be seen and the background image is displayed
correctly (!). Reloading fixes the problem.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Clean the cache, enable pipelining and go to the URL
2.
3.

Comment 1

[Steffen Motzer]

Attachment: Top of the page

Comment 2

[Steffen Motzer]

Attachment: Page scrolled down

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Do you have pipelining turned on?

Comment 4

[Steffen Motzer]

Yes, pipelining is turned on.

Comment 5

[Darin Fisher]

try disabling pipelining... and let us know if that fixes the problem.  thx!

Comment 6

[Steffen Motzer]

I have seen this and a similar error on other pages as well in the past, though
it doesn't happen often and it seems that it only happens when pipelining is
enabled. On one discussion forum (I think it was hosted on disc.server.com)
Mozilla once even suddently used one of the images on that page as the
background image! On reloading Mozilla used a different one as the background
image. I had to reload the page a couple of times until Mozilla used the right
file as the background image. So far I haven't been able to reproduce that
particular bug. 

Comment 7

[Darin Fisher]

well, if you can tell me the link to the problematic page, i might be able to
determine what's going wrong.  in most case having to do with pipelining-only
bugs, it is the server that is at fault.  why?  because no other popular
browsers besides mozilla support pipelining, so few people test their server
software's pipelining abilities.  nevermind the fact that the standard for
HTTP/1.1 requires servers to support it ;-)

Comment 8

[Michael Lefevre]

this would be 140107

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140107 ***

Comment 9

[Tom Everingham]

verified duplicate