244924 - Empty page displayed with "Error 500:" in upper left corner.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[ThomasH]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

I receive these emails from Mercedes Benz with a link to a web page
presenting the news. On Internet Explorer this works, as well as on 
Mozilla 1.6. But on Firebird/Firefox 0.8 I see only 

   Error 500:

and the URL changes to: 

  http://www.mbusa.com/MBServlet/RedirectServlet?src=494&target=C_OVERVIEW

Their webmaster cannot guess what the reason might be. Seems to be 
some servlet problem?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Cut and paste the URl which I gave
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Message Error 500: on an empty page.

Expected Results:  
Advance to URL: 

http://www.mbusa.com/brand/container.jsp?/models/class_overview.jsp&modelCode=c_class_main

and browse... Once I retrieve this URL using Internet Explorer I can 
cut-and-paste it to Firefox and browse without a problem. Seemingly 
only the primary access is a problem.

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

Am seeing this with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a)
Gecko/20040518.

--> Browser

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I get the same thing with other browsers too... It looks like their
browser-sniffer has no idea what browser we are and throws an error.  Over to evang.

Reporter, you may want to contact the site and politely ask them to fix their
code...

Comment 3

[ThomasH]

I will try (again...) Since its work on Internet Explorer just fine,
they replied to me that they do not know what the problem is and
that they believe its a broken browser. :-)

Comment 4

[Rajkiran R B]

I get the same error.. Some of the websites whn opened in ie shows error 500.. however firefox displays it as an empty page...

Comment 5

[Rajkiran R B]

the error occurs in this version

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

Comment 6

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

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