425472 - Pressing 'Login' button causes spurious popup.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ken Dukes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13

When I try to login to Network Solutions Webmail, instead of actually logging in, a weird popup appears that says "You have chosen to open login.exe".

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://mail.beyondken.com
2.Enter username & password
3.Press 'Login'
Actual Results:  
A weird popup appears:

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t260/BeyondKen/Mozbug.jpg

Expected Results:  
Display my inbox.

Many other buttons in Network Solutions Webmail have similar result.  No other website produces this.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I'm very sure that this page sends the wrong content-type and that would be a server error. You would not get this popup in IE because they don't follow the HTTP RFC.

Do you get the same popup with a wrong login ?
It's possible that this happened because of a temporary server glitch, can you please clear the disk cache in tools/Options/Privacy/clear...

Comment 2

[Ken Dukes]

Clearing the disk cache did not help:

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t260/BeyondKen/Mozbug2.jpg

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

The only thing we can do know is either a packet trace (from an external tool like Ethreal/Wireshark) or a http log generated by Firefox.

for a http log read : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/http-debugging.html

(replace mozilla with Firefox.exe).
The log would contain all hostnames, be careful about privacy if you want to generate a log an attach it here.

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.x or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.8 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.