269529 - "IE" can surf to site. firefox errors with "The connection was refused when attempting to contact ..."

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[paulhealy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

This bug is different than other bug reports regarding "connection refused"
because those bug reports are a general configuration issue where NO sites are
reachable.
In general, I have ZERO configuration issues.  To reproduce this bug and
understand it, it helps to know that the site in question has a very slow upload
link to the internet so it loads VERY slowly. This is true regardless of your
own internet connection (broadband or dialup). However the site is functional.
If you try to surf to site in IE, youll find that IE patiently waits for it to
load and in few minutes (apx 5 minutes) everything is present.  With firefox
after about 25 seconds one gets the error dialog box "The connection was refused
when attempting to contact www.davealex.dnsalias.com"   To recap: with this bug,
IE yields 100% of this slowloading site, firefox yields zero percent of it. The
main unusual item here is the site is a functional, but because of hardware, slow. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. using firefox go to www.davealex.dnsalias.com
2. In apx 25 seconds you'll get error dialog box mentioned.
3. Using IE go to same site. It takes a few minutes but it WILL load.

Actual Results:  
get error dialog box 
"The connection was refused when attempting to contact www.davealex.dnsalias.com" 

Expected Results:  
wait for site to load and display it.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

Page doesnt load with either Firefox nor IE 6

Comment 2

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

Using 20041107 Firefox/1.0, I just loaded the given URL (somebody's recount of
their Amtrak trip to Glacier NP, etc..) with no problem at all. The page loaded
a bit slowly from all the pics, but I would guess that's a server issue.

Reporter, does that site fail to load for you 100% of the time?

Comment 3

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

received another email regarding this issue. 

"I was using the version just prior to the official 1.0 release, the one that
received a lot of advertising about a couple of months ago, I知 not sure how
long. It was not a Beta that I知 aware of, but a final preliminary version
before 1.0, if I have that correct. I used that version off and on for awhile
with no trouble."  

Windows XP

Comment 4

[Brad Culbertson]

I have also had this problem no matter were i browse to i get the same 
error, "The Connection was refused when attempting to contact (site that i try 
and connect to)"  I am using windows XP currently using IE.

Comment 5

[Alessandro]

Y find the same bug. Firefox refuses to connect to secure sites or pages. I 
cant surf this page with Firefox....but with IE. :-(

Comment 6

[Karen]

Guys, do you have Norton Internet Security? If you do, you can go to Personal
firewall option, Intenet access control and then add a rule to allow firefox to
have automatic access. See if it works for you.

Comment 7

[Ken Johanson]

I too am having this problem on win2k lately - still trying to track when it
started, but suspect that maybe it started after installing some nightly builds,
then reverting back to ff1.0.. but it could be other software that caused this
as well. Definately a real problem as well as show stopper for anyone affected -
it would help if some GRE-networking folks could offer troubeshooting tips..

My only non-standard configs in pref.js is:
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 64);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 20);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 10);

Comment 8

[pmellmer]

I have the same problem since i install 1.02 security patch.  I get the 
connection refused no matte what url I use.  I have no problems when using IE

Comment 9

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

http://www.davealex.dnsalias.com is down hence inaccessible from neither IE nor
FF. It's a matter of the timeout period, so INVALID.

(In reply to comment #8)
> I have the same problem since i install 1.02 security patch.  I get the 
> connection refused no matte what url I use.  I have no problems when using IE

I'm afraid it's a different problem.

Comment 10

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

verified invalid