39383 - text/plain pages don't render (show as a blank page)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 40060

(Core Graveyard :: GFX, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris Siebenmann]

Build ID: current CVS pull and 2000051508 (latest nightly)

 The listed URL, and any other text/plain web page I can dig up, fails to
display. Although Mozilla reports that the document loads the browser is
blank, at the default background colour, with no scrollbars. Sometimes if
I attempt to swipe out an invisible selection by waving the mouse around
with button-1 held down, Mozilla reports:
	no handler found for HTML
(I believe on mouse up).

 The page is definetly fetched from the network; I've checked our web
server logs to see that. (And on a large text file, the percentage
completion gadget will tick up.)

 If you open up Edit | View Source, you get a blank page again and
Mozilla reports
	Error loading URL about:blank

 I believe this problem appeared in CVS pulls from sometime over this
weekend, although I can't be entirely sure.

Comment 1

[Chris Siebenmann]

(corrected my goof in failing to fully qualify the domain name of the sample
 URL.)

Comment 2

[Decklin Foster]

I see this with the sample URL on 051920, but most other text/plain pages render
as if they were text/html. should I file a separate bug for that?

Here's another interesting test case: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt
I see the last ~50 lines rendered as HTML. the rest of the text is gone.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Confirming. Interestingly, View | Page Source is also blank on the URL above.

Gerv

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40060 ***

Comment 5

[Matt Perry]

Verified duplicate.