256544 - Redirect to secure site just brings up blank page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[marshall jones]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

When browser is redirected to the secure server it just brings up about:blank

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. 
Goto http://hrinz.org.nz/tools/events/default.asp?SECT=Events
2.
Click on any "To register yourself for this event, click here" link.
3.
Webserver will then send you to a page which checks to see if user is on secure
server, if not (which is this case) it will try to redirect to the secure
server. This works fine in IE but in Moz it will send you to about:blank. 



Actual Results:  
Browser displays about:blank

Expected Results:  
Redirected to secure server (https://secure.e-xpert.co.nz)


I did a search of redirect to see if there were similar problems. The closest I
could find was when downloading a file from ftp it wouldn't redirect after that.
However this doesn't involve a file download just a regular redirect.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

WFM 20040813 trunk PC/WinXP

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817

If you want to see what is going on, there is an extension showing the HTTP Headers

http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/

Comment 3

[marshall jones]

Couldn't get that extension working under windows so will have to wait until I
get home to test it. 

In the meantime I changed the page from writing the cookie then redirecting to
redirecting then writing the cookie. 

I've seen this happen in Moz before so will keep an eye on it and see if I can
nail this behaviour.

Thanks for the tip.

M