225953 - text of ftp file doesn't appear

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Networking: FTP, defect)

Description

[Wouter van Wijk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

The contents of a text file doesn't appear at the ftp-site above. When browsing
 ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/, with FireBird 0.7 as well as Mozilla 1.2.1, on
RedHat 9, the first time I access a text-file, all is well and the contents get
displayed, but the second time I access another text file, the browser window
stays empty.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/
2. Click README.txt
3. Go back
4. Click sources.list
Actual Results:  
An empty browser window

Expected Results:  
Show the contents of the text-file

Comment 1

[Giovanni Mariani]

Same thing with plain Mozilla 1.5 on Win2k: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007.
Also loading the same text file twice (i.e. the same README.TXT, after a "Go
back") shows the problem.

Comment 2

[Ian Graham]

Hmmm.  This works for me -- 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
I have tried, but can't make the text 'disappear'.

Comment 3

[John P Baker]

This looks like the server. This is an ftp log:

RETR sources.list
   150-Opening BINARY mode data connection for sources.list (896 bytes).
   150 Restricting network throughput to 512000 bytes/s.
   226 Transfer complete.
PWD
   257 "/apt" is current directory.
PORT 213,120,31,83,195,1
   200 PORT command successful.
RETR sources.list
   150-Opening BINARY mode data connection for sources.list (896 bytes).
   150 Restricting network throughput to 0 bytes/s.
   226 Transfer complete.

This second fetch gave 0 bytes.

Comment 4

[Hermann Schwab]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031117

confirming this behaviour on 1.4.1 and 1.5, 
1.6b BuildID 2003111708 crashes on this link.
ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/README.txt

I used different profiles, specific to each browser.
Link loaded fine, went to another page, back, and title was shown, but window
was empty. Reload, Shift-Reload didn´t help. Cleared cache, to no avail.
Closed browser, opened browser, and could see it on first load, but not on
subsequent ones. Reproducable. 
PageInfo was showing: Page not cached, Expiry not specified, Last Modified:
[Time of view] Don´t remember if time of view was time of 1st or time of 2nd
load, can´t check now as I´m now on 1.6b (crashing with this URL, Win98, in
XPCOM.DLL .text+0x67a
There is only XPCOM.DLL, DOCSHELL and NECKO in DocWatson´s stack summary.

Comment 5

[Ian Graham]

Is this perhaps related to cache preference settings?  What is your setting in
the Preferences menu (Edit --> Preferences, then selecting  Advanced --> Cache ) 
Mine is set to the following (and I do _not_ see this bug):

Compare the page in the cache to the page on the network:
  [ ] Every time I view a page      [ ] Once per session
  [X] When teh page is out of date  [ ] Never

Comment 6

[Wouter van Wijk]

Mine is also set to When the page is out of date.

Comment 7

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

mass reassigning to nobody.

Comment 8

[Wouter van Wijk]

Wow, that's an old one. I tested it again, it's fixed I think.