404878 - blank page returned if http response has a excessively long status line

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Q]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

If the Reason-Phrase in the status line is more than ~10626 characters, Firefox returns a 'blank page'. It's not actually a blank page, but rather it just displays whatever was displaying before.

Note that this is if the Status-Code is 500. I don't know if it's true for any other status codes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send a HTTP Response with a status line of: "HTTP/1.1 500 ' << msg << "\r\n";
where msg is a string with > than ~10626 characters.

Actual Results:  
Firefox returns nothing. It's as if it received nothing, if it's a new tab, the reload button is inactive and the screen is blank. If it's a old tab, then the previous content remains on display.

Expected Results:  
Correctly displayed whatever information was in the Response.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs that are in the Firefox General component, are UNCO, and have not been changed for 1000 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the bug, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the resolution to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply from reporter, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.