191534 - Accessing www.ebay.co.uk gives error: "The document contains no data"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 189965

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Ross]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

Whenever I look at any page in e-bay after I have logged in I get an error
message: "The document contains no data"

When I press OK (the only option available) I can continue fine, but the error
message comes up every time I load a new page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of bug 135182?

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

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Comment 3

[benc]

Try clearing your cache if you have not.
Please provide a sample URL.

It looks like you are using the Phoenix 0.5 milestone release, I tried it and it
WFM.

Comment 4

[Ross]

I have realised what is wrong, I use a hosts file (a very extensive one)  to 
block advertising within web-pages, when I restored the original Windoze one I 
do not get the error with Phoenix. The error occurs regardless of the 
combination of "adblock.enabled", "adblock.hide" and "adblock.patterns" in the 
advanced preferences accessible after installing the advanced prefs extension.
 
I know it's not really a bug as it's something I have done outwith Phoenix that 
is forcing the error, but AFAIAC, if I am going to use Phoenix 100% instead of 
IE6 it should be able to do everything IE6 does without errors.
 
My apologies if this has been a time waste for you guys.
 
Cheers
Ross

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

What's do you mean by "after installing the advanced prefs extension" ? What's that?

Comment 6

[Ross]

I am meaning this extension downloadable from Mozilla.org here:

http://texturizer.net/phoenix/extensions.html#Preferential

Or from their home-page here:

http://preferential.mozdev.org/

I have restored my hosts file from my 384kbyte list to the orignal 789 bytes
file given with Windows, it means I now have some ads within the body of some
pages, but it's no big deal. Phoenix seems to catch any unwanted pop-up and I
don't mind ads that are a part of a page so much...

Comment 7

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of bug 189965? See bug 192825 comment 4

Comment 8

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

should be a dupe...


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 189965 ***

Comment 9

[benc]

hacking your hosts file is bad. we don't have a design that supports this
behavior. Sometimes it has worked, other times, it has turned out badly for users.