289715 - image GET not issued after favicon GET results in 404

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Enrique Perez-Terron]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

The image on the left hand side does not load. 

Using a network sniffer while reloading the minimal test case (added below)
using 'file:' scheme shows that

 => GET favicon.ico HTTP/1.0
 <= 404 Not found

are the only exchanges

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCART in the url bar, press Enter.

  I believe the actual condition is that the page has an image element whose
  src attribute is non-local, eg. starts with http://...

2.Watch the page, there is a frame to the right with the text "SCART plug"
  below it.

Actual Results:  
Frame is empty. No image is displayed

Expected Results:  
Picture of Scart plug should appear.

Using context menu "Copy image location" and pasting it into the url bar, the
url works and loads the picture on a separate page.  Using the url in an 
anchor href attribute also works.

Most pages on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/* have this problem.

Clicking the image is supposed to give a page with an enlarged version of the
image, but this too fails. However, it fails for an entirely different reason.

The original image is in an anchor element, whose href is a local link 
"/wiki/Image:Scart-plug.jpg". However, it returns a page called 
Image:Scart-plug.jpg.html whith an image element whose src attribute is 
"Image:Scart-plug.jpg" This time Firefox does not emit ANY 'GET' message,
probably because it thinks Image: is a scheme. I will post another bug on 
this.

Comment 1

[Enrique Perez-Terron]

Attachment: Minimal test case

This test case displays as an empty page, yet it has an image element.
There is not even a "broken image" icon, which is also a bug.

Right-clicking sufficiently near the upper left corner produces an 
image-related context menu. The "Load image" entry loads the image.

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

have you selected "load images for the originating web page only"?

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

No response from reporter, bug not reproducible in current trunk builds...

Marking worksforme, but please reopen if you have an answer to comment 2.