212733 - nothing happens when loading this url

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

When I load http://www3.hmc.edu/~nosuchuser, nothing happens.  No error message
appears either.  I'm using 

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030702 Mozilla
Firebird/0.6

with error pages enabled.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

Tried it in IE, got a 404 and then redirected to another domain.

Lynx threw a network read error and didn't display anything.

The W3C link checker, if you run it on this Bugzilla page, returns this for the
link in question:

http://www3.hmc.edu/~nosuchuser
    What to do: This is a server-side problem. Check the URI.
    HTTP Code returned: 500
    HTTP Message: EOF instead of reponse status line
    Lines: 847, 1176

Comment 2

[u63580]

Clearly a server problem.  Our cache gives:

ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www3.hmc.edu/~nosuchuser

The following error was encountered:

    * Zero Sized Reply 

Squid did not receive any data for this request. 

Should this be invalid?

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Mozilla should show a blank page or an error page rather than doing nothing.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

So.. here is a transcript of what an HTTP session for that url looks like:

~% telnet www3.hmc.edu 80
Trying 134.173.32.75...
Connected to www3.hmc.edu.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /~nosuchuser HTTP/1.1
Host: www3.hmc.edu

Connection closed by foreign host.
~% 

So the site just drops the connection; no response, nothing.

We should probably report this back to the user in some way, yes...

Comment 5

[Darin Fisher]

-> default owner