222266 - Browser gets caught in a loop trying to load this page and never succeeds

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Chuck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925

The browser is caught in a loop when it tries to load this page.  You see many
urls but the page never loads.  The browser doesn't hang, it just can't load
these pages.  This is a new bug with 1.5, it never happened in the earlier
builds (1.4, etc)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://weather.com
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
various urls flash in the address bar and keep reappearing but the page never
loads.  You can't get to the site.

Expected Results:  
The page should have loaded.

Windows 2000 Pro, SP4

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031014
Seems I got redirected once, but I can´t tell exactly, as I´m loading tabs in
the background. When I switched to the tab, http://www.weather.com/ was loaded.

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

WFM, Mozilla 1.5 and trunk on Linux

Comment 3

[Hermann Schwab]

I´m now seeing this on another computer, running Win98 with SP1, DUN (ISDN)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031015

http://www.w2.weather.com/common/jump.html?/
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Refresh"
content="0;URL=http://www.w2.weather.com/common/jump2.html?/">
</head>


http://www.w2.weather.com/common/jump3.html?/
<body>
<img height=1 width=1 border=0
src="/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.ads/noad.weather.com/noad@TopBanner">
</body>
</html>

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.weather.com/">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Comment 4

[Jon Henry]

Is that a "yes, I see the problem too" or "I see the redirection, but it's
working correctly"? The site wfm using the 10/21 Firebird nightly on Win 2000.

Comment 5

[Shawn Smout]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

I had this problem for a while also.  It turned out the issue was some sort of
cookie problem.  I had blocked cookies from weather.com, but there were still
some stored cookies that I forgot to delete.  Going to weather.com caused the
infinite redirect loop.  However, when I deleted these stored cookies (while
still denying weather.com all cookies), weather.com loaded correctly again.

Comment 6

[Aaron Strasburg]

v1.5 wfm under Linux.  v1.6a does not work on Mac OS X, I see the same looping
behavior that did not happen under 1.4 (haven't tried 1.5).

Comment 7

[Aaron Strasburg]

A corollary to comment #5:  I had 1 cookie stored for .weather.com and then had
disabled cookies for that site and got the looping problem.  When I re-enabled
cookies the site loads correctly.  This is Mac OS X, Moz v1.5.

Comment 8

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

*** Bug 231046 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Jon Henry]

Resolving worksforme, I am willing to bet they have some Javascript that relies
on cookies existing and it crashes and burns when they aren't found. But if
that's wrong, please feel free to reopen.