276167 - Connection failure for home page causes all subsequent requests to fail

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[RayK]

MacOS X 10.2.8

If the network is not available when I open Mozilla, I get a connection refused error as you would 
expect.

However, once the network is available again, no other Web pages could be accessed - Mozilla 
message: site could not be reached while other browsers can load pages just fine.

My conclusion is that once Mozilla fails to connect to the specified home page, it will not connect 
to any site despite the fact that it is reachable. For instance, using Safari I was able to verify that 
other pages, including Google were reachable, for instance.

Happens with the current build of Firefox as well.

Happens with:

Firefox V1.0 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 
Firefox/1.0

-or-

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041221 Firefox/1.0+

-or-

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041227

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.