265742 - "The document contains no data" after eBay wildcard search

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Darrin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

My problem has been recurring intermittantly for some time, lately however the
problem occurs 99.99% of the time.

When I run a wildcard search for an item within eBay (the page I've listed above
is only one example, it really doesn't matter) instead of opening the
appropriate page, I recieve the following error box:

Alert! The document contains no data




Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Search for a wildcard item (eg: 196* cadillac convertible {returning all
examples of 1960's Cadillac Convertibles})

2. The error box displays instead of refreshing the page & displaying the items
matching my search criterion.


Actual Results:  
An error box stating "Alert! The document contains no data"

Expected Results:  
Refresh and display the items matching my search criterion.

I've added no software in months - no extensions, themes, nothing.

Comment 1

[Darrin]

Attachment: A Screen Capture .jpg of the problem

Hit enter from the keyboard or click eBays' "Search" button and instead of
going on to display the search results, this error pops up.

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

this error indicates a harsh disconnect of the connection to the server.  this
is sometimes caused by misbehaving firewalls.  in some cases, IE is more
tolerant of such problems, and therefore it would seem that firewall vendors do
not fix their bugs.  do you have a firewall installed on your system?  can you
try disabling it to see if the problem goes away?

Comment 3

[Darrin]

(In reply to comment #2)
> this error indicates a harsh disconnect of the connection to the server.  this
> is sometimes caused by misbehaving firewalls.  in some cases, IE is more
> tolerant of such problems, and therefore it would seem that firewall vendors do
> not fix their bugs.  do you have a firewall installed on your system?  can you
> try disabling it to see if the problem goes away?


I've no firewalls installed, but you had me thinking...

This morning I played around with my proxy settings, changing them from
"proxy.cg.shawcable.net" at port "8080" for the big 5 (HTTP, SSL, SOCKS, FTP and
GOPHER), to "Direct Connetion to the Internet" and the problem has gone away!(??)

Question: 

All seems to be working properly. Is there any reason to change the "Direct
Connection"? Should I expect other problems to pop up over my change of proxy
setting?

Thanks for the input Darin.