202919 - New User String sending bad GET request?

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 202918

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[dmoran]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030422 Firebird™ Browser/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030422 Firebird™ Browser/0.6

(Example sites: http://www.filmfour.com , http://latimes.com ,http://www.sebank.se)

Upon trying to load these sites with latest Firebird release results in folling: 

Bad request
Your browser sent a query this server could not understand.

Example headers:

GET /, HTTP/1.1
Host: www.filmfour.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a)
Gecko/20030422 Firebird™ Browser/0.6
Accept:
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,compress;q=0.9
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.mozillazine.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=71486

HTTP/1.x 400 Bad request
Server: UWS-secure01a
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:29:36 GMT
Content-Length: 147
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: close 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load up http://nytimes.com
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Bad request
Your browser sent a query this server could not understand.


Expected Results:  
Server returns content.

A quick workaround is installing User Agent Toolbar
(http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions.html#User%20Agent%20Toolbar%20%28uabar%29),
and altering User String.

Comment 1

[Sébastien Delahaye]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 202918 ***

Comment 2

[noririty]

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