284607 - Garbage loads instead of web page, forced refresh fixes this

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[George Elliott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

When I click on the above link and a few others on the same site the page
displays as garbage, the source of the page also shows as garbage. 
Pressing CTRL+F5 to force a page refresh display the proper page and looking at
the source it is now html code. If I now select reload from the view menu or
press F5 the pages reverts to garbage. 
Browsing directly to the link in IE6 renders the page properly first time and
everytime.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php?showforum=18
2.press ctrl+F5 to view the proper page source
3.press F5 or select reload from the view menu.

Actual Results:  
1. page displays as garbage
2. page displays properly
3. page displays as garbage again

Expected Results:  
display the proper page each time

I have tried this with both firefox 1.0 and firefox 1.0.1, I reported the
problem on the website and its been conmirmed by another firefox user on a
different continent (rules out ISP cache problems)

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date:	Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:24:42 GMT	CRLF
Server:	Apache/2.0.52 (Gentoo/Linux) PHP/4.3.4	CRLF
X-Powered-By:	PHP/4.3.4	CRLF
Content-Encoding:	gzip	CRLF
Vary:	Accept-Encoding,User-Agent	CRLF
Set-Cookie:	session_id=997f3993143b18202b4f4c1dcce6feba; path=/;
domain=.planetamd64.com	CRLF
Set-Cookie:	modtids=%2C; path=/; domain=.planetamd64.com	CRLF
X-Powered-By:	PHP/4.3.4	CRLF
Set-Cookie:	session_id=fb234cae6795789feda925cfcf510823; path=/	CRLF
Set-Cookie:	modtids=%2C; path=/	CRLF
Set-Cookie:	forum_read=a%3A1%3A%7Bi%3A18%3Bi%3A1109874282%3B%7D; expires=Fri,
03-Mar-2006 18:24:42 GMT; path=/	CRLF
Content-Encoding:	gzip	CRLF
Transfer-Encoding:	chunked	CRLF
Content-Type:	text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1	CRLF


The server sends the content-encoding header twice...

Comment 2

[George Elliott]

Thanks Matti, I've reported the problem to one of the moderators on the wesite
effected, hopefully they can clear it up, should firefox be able to trap this
type of error?

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I don't know if that is the reason for this problem but I think it is.
Darin or someone else who knows networking should take a look at this..

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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