192174 - unable to show page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[R.K.Aa.]

Tested with a two day old trunk build on Windows as well as Mozilla 1.0.0 on Linux:

Go to http://www.kystverket.no
Result: Only a top frame displays. All other content missing

The same page displays in Netscape 4.7 and 4.77, allthough at times a resize is
required to make the main frame display.

The whole site seems to consists of a horrible mix of Word9 / Frontpage4 code.
But the URL displays in Netscape 4.77. Even Old Opera 3.51 display most of it,
but is missing a menu on left hand side.

Not sure whether this is frames or evang.

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

I sometimes get raw html code and HTTP headers in some of the frames, randomly
with build 2003020508 on Win2. No proxy, no pipelining.

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

I got weird code AND an image once when tried loading a frame in a separate
window. But reloading it showed an image and rest of page as blank.
(The image is not visible when loading the URL as reported here.

Comment 3

[Olivier Cahagne]

From the main frame,
http://www.kystverket.no:8080/Kystverket/SilverStream/Pages/Kystverket.html
Site uses Novell SilverStream 10.0 HTTP server:

telnet www.kystverket.no 8080
HEAD / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 08:06:13 G
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=@71e133:f3
Content-Length: 0
Server: SilverStream Server/10.0

Site also uses document.layers (seen using a sniffer) with bad browser sniffing
JavaScript code:

[...]
this.nav4up = this.nav && (this.major >= 4)
[...]
if (is.nav4up) {
	for (count=1; count <= labelCount; count++) {
	var middle_id = eval("document.ids." + "cell" + count);
	var left_id = eval("document.ids." + "cell" + count + "_l");
	var right_id = eval("document.ids." + "cell" + count + "_r");
	var middle = "cell" + count;
	var left = "cell" + count + "_l";
	var right = "cell" + count + "_r";

	if (count == number) {
	left_id.backgroundColor="#FFFFFF";
	middle_id.backgroundColor="#FFFFFF";
	right_id.backgroundColor="#FFFFFF";
	document.layers[left].bgColor = "#FFFFFF";
	document.layers[middle].bgColor = "#FFFFFF";
	document.layers[right].bgColor = "#FFFFFF";
//	document.layers[left].visibility = "show";
//	document.layers[middle].visibility = "show";
//	document.layers[right].visibility = "show";
}

Moving to Networking: HTTP in case there's something wrong with the HTTP
negotiation with Novel SilverStream server. Eventhough site uses
document.layers, etc. the random results from Mozilla displaying the page show
there's something broken "somewhere" (including server side, eventually).

Comment 4

[Olivier Cahagne]

using a sniffer, site sometimes send HTTP 205 (Reset) requests, according to
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
" The server has fulfilled the request and the user agent SHOULD reset the
document view which caused the request to be sent. This response is primarily
intended to allow input for actions to take place via user input[...]"

Does Mozilla handle HTTP Status code 205 ? I couldn't find any reference to it
via LXR.

Comment 5

[Olivier Cahagne]

maybe related: bug 192049, hopefully, next nightly build will have this fix, so
that we can retest this site.

Comment 6

[Olivier Cahagne]

still doesn't work with build 2003020704 on Win2k, so it's not bug 192049.

Comment 7

[R.K.Aa.]

Opera 6.11 for Linux display the whole page, all frames.
I doubt this is a networking bug.

Comment 8

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 201539 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[R.K.Aa.]

The page is redesigned and things work fine.
The original cause wasn't clear: WFM