Closed Bug 416279 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Firefox says "File not found" on server's "500 Internal server error" response

Categories

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking: HTTP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: syskin2, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008020708 Minefield/3.0b4pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008020708 Minefield/3.0b4pre I hit this today when visiting http://cvs.xvid.org/cvs/viewvc.cgi . The server returns: HTTP/1.x 500 Internal Server Error Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:26:20 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.0 (Linux/SUSE) Content-Length: 0 Content-Type: application/x-cgi Connection: close Byt firefox shows "File not found" error page, rather than "Internal server error" page. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. visit a wbsite that gives "500" response with no other content Actual Results: "File not found" Expected Results: "Internal server error" FF2 is doing something ever weirder (trying to save the zero-sized error page?) so I'm not sure what's going on.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: General → Networking: HTTP
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: general → networking.http
That URL no longer returns a 500, I can't reproduce :( I could when this was filed, but didn't get a chance to debug before now. Tried creating my own testcase, but didn't have much luck.
Gavin It send the 500 with a content type other then text/plain or Text/html as far as I remember
I quoted all headers in comment 0, but the two headers that are needed are: 500 response and a content type. Content-Length is not needed. I made up a new testcase using php.
URL: http://cvs.xvid.org/cvs/viewvc.cgi → http://members.ii.net/~syskin/500.php
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: PC → All
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Intentional change from bug 312727.
Blocks: 312727
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
verified based on my comment #2 that the server sent the http 500 with a content type other than text/plain or text/html which would create a helper app window.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
The error message "File Not Found" isn't quite accurate in this case, fwiw.
(In reply to comment #4) > Intentional change from bug 312727. That bug was about not popping up a download dialogue, not about morphing all server errors into into 404 :) Having said that, this is too rare and too trivial to bother anyone with reopening. Unless you feel otherwise.
I filed bug 426961 on using a less misleading error message.
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