284536 - Apple URL crashes HTTP service for all apps; ping & FTP are still fine, see below.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Steve Otto]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050302 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050302 Firefox/1.0+

Following "Steps" below, Firefox somehow steps on underlying http functionality
which causes all future http access attempts in all browsers to barf with the
msg: "The connection was refused when attempting to contact urlname", e.g.,
google.com etc.  Also shuts down email; Thunderbird says:
"Could not connect to server pop.earthlink.net, the connection was refused". 
Ping and FTP still work fine.  Turning off Symantec firewall has no effect.
Only workaround is to use another browser, e.g. Opera, etc.
machine:  Mac G3 PowerBook with Mac OSX Panther with all software updates.
network:  WEP 128 protected wireless network.
browser:  FireFox 10.0.1  also nitely build as of a few hours ago.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  http://www.apple.com/

2.  then click on the Mac Mini, which is URL: http://www.apple.com/macmini/

3.  then click on Buy Online Now, which is URL: http://www.apple.com/store/
which bounces to URL:
     http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore/

In browsers Opera, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, this page loads fine.

In FireFox, it never quite completes, as somehow in the process, http
functionality gets stepped on, along with email. 

NB:  If you just go straigt to the "offending URL" it works fine ... :-[

Actual Results:  
see "Details" above.


Expected Results:  
at least not crash global http functionality & force a user reboot.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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