277910 - bsil.com - invalid meta refresh

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Ramesh]

try accessing this site http://ozone.bsil.com. This is our internal website for
employees.
When u try accessing this site it will redirect automatically to
http://ozone.bsil.com/Ozone/charset=iso-8859-1

and following error on the page is displayed

Not Found
The requested URL /Ozone/charset=iso-8859-1 was not found on this server.

Apache/1.3.20 Server at ozone.bsil.com Port 80

where as it works well with IE 6.0
hope this info is clear enuf to find the problem.

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

Please be aware that bugzilla is not a support forum and you will find
more people willing to help in the forums, exempli gratia:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38 (linked from
the Firefox support page at http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/ )

Your page is at http://ozone.bsil.com/Ozone/Homepage.do 

An attempted SGML parse reveals no fewer than 210 errors in over 2200
lines of HTML.

Please submit a shortened testcase, as I fear that the information
provided is not clear enough to find a defect in Firefox (if any) related
to your problem.

Even so, you may find that someone comes along and marks this bug as INVALID,
in which case you should consult the section in Eric Raymond's paper on
Use of English for native speakers.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#writewell

	We've found by experience that people who are careless and
	sloppy writers are usually also careless and sloppy at 
	thinking... Answering questions for careless and sloppy 
	thinkers is not rewarding; ...

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

The redirect to 

http://ozone.bsil.com/Ozone/charset=iso-8859-1 comes from

line 64: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

The "html" is pathetic (understatement)
Throw away that page and start all over (it probably will take less time than
correcting the other 225 errors)

Comment 3

[Josh Birnbaum]

->docshell

I see this with Moz 1.8b.  IE ignores the meta-refresh (which looks like it
started out life as a <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1">).  Should we ignore it as well?

Comment 4

[Ben Fowler]

IMHO, only if standards suggest or merely allow that.

If you can show, or put forward a plausible argument, that Firefox can cater
to people who want to use re-direction/refresh but are unable (perhaps through
choice of tools) to do correctly without causing any problems for correct
code then this could be considered.

Otherwise we are risking adding bugs or bloat to Firefox for no appreciable
benefit.

Comment 5

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/head/meta.html

quote:
<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="10; URL=http://www.htmlhelp.com/">

so it's quite logical tthat the url here will refresh as soon as it is loaded
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
it ignores the text/html and tries to refresh to
http://ozone.bsil.com/Ozone/charset=iso-8859-1

this should either be INVA or -> TECH EVAN

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

fixed