274811 - some HTML pages are displayed as ASCII control characters

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Ian Dedic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

Updated to Mozilla 1.7.3 a few days ago; some sites now don't display as HTML
but a screen full of control (and Chinese?) characters, for example
http://www.tomshardware.com/
http://www.pvruk.co.uk/
These open and display correctly in IE6 (and used to be OK in Mozilla 1.7)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to the web page
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
਍格浴㹬਍格慥㹤਍㰉敭慴渠浡㵥爢扯瑯≳挠湯整瑮∽湩敤ⱸ潦汬睯㸢਍㰉䕍䅔丠䵁㵅搢獩牴扩瑵
潩≮䌠乏䕔呎∽汇扯污㸢਍㰉䕍䅔丠䵁㵅爢癥獩瑩愭瑦牥•佃呎久㵔㈢搠祡≳ാ †††㰠䕍䅔渠浡㵥
欢祥潷摲≳挠湯整瑮∽歓ⱹ楔潶倬剖䐬剖搬杩瑩污栬牡⁤牤癩ⱥ䍖ⱒ敲潣摲䠬䑄匬䉔猬瑥琠灯戠硯
听癩灵牧摡ⱥ歓⁹汰獵爬捥牯敤Ⱳ楤楧慴ⱬ楶敤Ɐ楤楧慴癴測睥測睥≳ാ †††㰠䕍䅔渠浡㵥搢獥
牣灩楴湯•潣瑮湥㵴䄢汬琠敨氠瑡獥⁴䭕丠睥⁳湯倠牥潳慮楖敤敲潣摲牥⁳
噐⁒
 湡⁤慨摲搠
楲敶戠獡摥楤楧慴楶敤敲潣摲牥⁳
噄⁒
畳档愠⁳歓⭹愠摮吠癩≯ാ †††㰠楴汴㹥噄⁒湡⁤噐⁒敎
獷牰摯捵獴愠摮甠杰慲敤⁳潦⁲桴⁥䭕⼼楴汴㹥਍਍਍⼼敨摡ാഊ㰊潢祤戠捧汯牯∽〣〰〰∰ാ㰊散瑮
牥ാഊ ††††ठഉഊ㰊䥌䭎删䱅∽瑳汹獥敨瑥•奔䕐∽整瑸振獳•剈䙅∽瑳汹⹥獣 ≳ാഊഊഊഊഊഊഊ㰊散瑮牥
ാഊऊ吼䉁䕌戠牯敤㵲〢•楷瑤㵨㠢〰•散汬慰摤湩㵧〢•散汬灳捡湩㵧〢•敨杩瑨∽㔹㸢਍㰉剔ാऊ
㰉䑔ാऊउ䤼䝍猠捲∽楓整楟杭⽳癰畲彫慭瑳晩⹦灪≧戠牯敤㵲〢㸢⼼䵉㹇਍उ⼼䑔ാഊऊ㰉䑔戠捧汯
牯∽桷瑩≥眠摩桴∽㔳∸ാऊउ昼湯⁴慦散∽牡慩

Expected Results:  
Displayed the web page. View==>Page Source also displays the string of control
codes. IE6 displays the page correctly, and View==>Source shows the expected
HTML code

These are the only two sites I've found so far (there are probably many more), I
suspect they're using some uncommon code which is being misinterpreted by Mozilla.

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

You might want to check the text encoding (Tools -> Page Info). Tom's
Hardware displays properly for me, with the ISO-8859-1 encoding.

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

Both WFM 20041215 PC/Win2000

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Ian, is this a problem in a current trunk build (eg 1.8a6)?

Comment 4

[Ian Dedic]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Ian, is this a problem in a current trunk build (eg 1.8a6)?
It seemed to be a corrupted font or something in a cached web page; after I
cleared Mozilla's cache the problem went away and hasn't recurred since.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Sounds like a page that was temporarily broken and sent gzip content without the
right headers....