199480 - Annoying popup "DOCUMENT CONTAINS NO DATA" when HOSTS file blocks image

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 189965

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Jim VIllani]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

I block images from certain sites -- advertising mostly -- by zeroing entries in
C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. Example lines are below:

0.0.0.0       ad.ae.doubleclick.net
0.0.0.0       ad.ar.doubleclick.net
0.0.0.0       ad.at.doubleclick.net

So whenever a website wants to show me an image from one of these sites (not
just these 3, but any in my list). before the page is displayed, I get a series
of modal "Document contains no data." dialogs, one for each image that has been
blocked. This doesn't seem to be the most useful behavior for images.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download and install a hosts file from
http://www.smartin-designs.com/downloads.htm
2. Go to a site that links images, like www.yahoo.com
3.

Actual Results:  
Popup appears as described.

Expected Results:  
Embedded the error message in the image area. IE does it this way (sorry).

Comment 1

[Josh Birnbaum]

This was actually a more basic networking problem.  It's been fixed for a while
(so sorry, I have to say it: don't report bugs from old versions of Mozilla).

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

Comment 2

[Michael Hendy (Hendikins)]

vrfy dupe