329282 - Page doesn't show content

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[J.Pietschmann]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060303 Firefox/1.6a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060303 Firefox/1.6a1

When loading the URL above, the page is blank, and the following exception appears
in the JavaScript console.
Error: [Exception... "'Illegal value' when calling method: [nsIFactory::createInstance]"  nsresult: "0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)"  location: "<unknown>"  data: no]

The problem was not present in the nightly build as of 2005-10-21, but is definitely in the nightly from 2006-02-12

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter the URL from above in the location bar and hit enter.

Comment 1

[J.Pietschmann]

Correction: the JavaScript error is not directly related to the problem. The
Javascript error seems always to appear just after the start of Firefox and
if an URL was opened by clicking a link in a thunderbird message (i.e. when
starting a new firefox instance).
The page is still blank though. Some processing happens, as it requests setting
a cookie and it loads the site's favicon. "Show source" is blank too.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060224 Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2006022423
I see nothing in any browser I try. What should be the contents of the page?

Comment 3

[Steve England [:stevee]]

The URL displays nothing in Firefox, Opera9tp2 and IE6 for me.

Comment 4

[J.Pietschmann]

Ah! THe problem is actually a truncated URL, which confuses the server.