284457 - http redirect doesn't work (perhaps bad "content-type")

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[r.navalinskas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050215
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050215

www.euroleague.net and www.ulebcup.com have features called "live stats" - for
basketball games. Former provides such features on wednesdays/thursdays around
20-22 CET (8 - 10 p.m. CET), the latter - the same time on tuesdays. Everytime
there is difference: when clicking on "Live stats", in MSIE new window is opened
and then redirected to actual page, in Mozilla - only new window is opened and
HTML is displayed as text.

my guess is that is because document is served from the server as "text/plain"
and mozilla uses "Quirks mode". But I am no expert in this field... I tried to
find similar thing about "broken pages" in "Mozilla Web Developer FAQ", but
didn't manage to.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.euroleague.net on wednesdays/thursdays around 20-22 CET (8 -
10 p.m. CET)
2. click on "live stats"
3.

Actual Results:  
new window is opened

Expected Results:  
new window is opened and redirected to other page

Comment 1

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

We do have a Tech Evangelism product for broken websites.  bc?

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

It would be Tech Evangelism/English other but don't put it there until you _know
for sure_ it is an evangelism problem. 8-10 CET is what in US ET? 1AM-3AM?

Comment 3

[r.navalinskas]

8-10 CET is 2am - 4am in US ET

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Reporter, could you possibly create an HTTP log of the interaction as described
at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/http-debugging.html and attach it
to this bug using
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?bugid=284457&action=enter ?

Comment 5

[r.navalinskas]

I will do so, but it will be only next Wednesday, as the page won't be available
until then

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Makes sense.  I'll get the mail when you attach the log and see what it looks
like.  Thank you in advance!

Comment 7

[r.navalinskas]

Today I cannot see the problem - seems like the feature (website) was updated.
It seems strange that it was fixed after I posted it as "bug/broken page" here.
I don't think it's worth to play with "x-files" here, maybe we could close this
problem, since I cannot reproduce the situation that was until this week.

Comment 8

[Zook Valem]

More than a week had passed since the reporter's last comment on March 9th.  So,
did you try it again to see if there's no further problem or not??  

Comment 9

[r.navalinskas]

I tried, but problem does not exist anymore. Either it's fixed because of
increased FireFox/Moz popularity or perhaps someone's saw bug report here.
Anyways, I cannot reproduce the case, so we could close the bug. 

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Worksforme, per comments.