275765 - Failure to honour content type when reloading after proxy configuration change

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 249107

(Core Graveyard :: Networking: FTP, defect)

Description

[boogs]

Hi,

I found what I think is a minor bug in Mozilla 1.7.5 (seamonkey). Precisely,
carrying out the following steps causes a plain text (.txt) file to be rendered
as HTML by Mozilla:

1. Install privoxy (http://www.privoxy.org) and configure Mozilla to use that
proxy for FTP connections.
2. Attempt to load a text file over FTP.
3. An error page will appear; this is due to the fact that privoxy does not
support FTP. This page is HTML, and will be rendered as such.
4. Configure Mozilla to not use a proxy for FTP connections anymore.
5. Reload the file.
6. The text file will now be loaded from the FTP server, as expected; however,
it will be rendered as HTML instead of as a text file.

Anewed loading of the text file without using Mozilla's "Reload" function works
fine.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Doesn't sound like a layout issue.

Can you do an HTTP log (see
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/http-debugging.html) of both parts
of the load (with privoxy used and without) and attach it to this bug?

Comment 2

[boogs]

I had a log file generated, and tried attaching it, but I consistently get the
error message "You did not specify a file to attach" - even though I did. 

Oh well, it's at http://schneelocke.net/mozlog.txt .

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

at a guess, this was fixed by bug 249107...

Can you try Mozilla 1.8alpha6 and check whether this is fixed now?

Comment 4

[boogs]

Yes, it seems to work fine in 1.8a6.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 249107 ***

Comment 6

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

vrfy.