295131 - rolandgarros.com - Page won't load (keeps trying); loads fine with IE

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: French, defect)

Description

[gerard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

the following address won't load with firefox:
http://www.rolandgarros.com/fr_FR/scores/schedule/index.html: It quickly changes
to http://www.rolandgarros.com/fr_FR/scores/index2.html with no more success and
keeps trying to load.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to the roland garros home page:
http://www.rolandgarros.com/fr_FR/index.html (or english version)
2.click on programme link (or schedule of play)


Actual Results:  
a blank page opens and keeps trying to load the linked page, without success.
Loading infos say searching, accessing data, stopped (in french, as using french
version. Address changes (see details)fairly quickly.

Expected Results:  
load the schedule of play page, apparently without specific flash or java content

Link works fine with crazy browser,an IE emulator. No address change is observed
(see details).

Comment 1

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Firefox/1.0.4
WFM in English, Spanish and French.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I see that in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; de-DE; rv:1.8b2)
Gecko/20050521 but I think it's a bug in the page itself.

Comment 3

[Tristor]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050522
Firefox/1.0+

I get the same effect in this build, but I think it may be caused by a bug in
the page, give me a moment and I will give it a visit with a pure-HTTP browser
(one that doesn't render the page) and take a glance at the source.  Looks like
it is probably broken JS.

Comment 4

[Tristor]

Ouch, the markup on that page hurts to read.  I don't have the JS skills
necessary to see if there is a bug in their JS, but I believe that is where the
problem lies.  It looks like a large majority of the page is generated by
Javascript, and I think part of it is causing the page to reload constantly.  I
am not sure why this works in IE.  I am going to move this to tech evangelism
and confirm it.

<-NEW

Comment 5

[Hermann Schwab]

wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050522 Mnenhy/0.7
BuildID 2005052223
started from URL and got redirected to
http://www.rolandgarros.com/fr_FR/scores/index2.html, and page was fast loading.
Tested reload, english and spanish pages, all working.
As comment 2 sees it at a 20050521 Trunk build, maybe it got fixed these days?

Comment 6

[Tristor]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050524
Firefox/1.0+

WFM, either the site has been fixed, or I was completely wrong and this was an
FF bug that has since been fixed.

<-WFM