432759 - my.break.com - bad sniffing causes error in non-Firefox Gecko browsers

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[jason]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008050707 Minefield/3.0pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008050707 Minefield/3.0pre

i get this upon load: error parsing JSON. - SyntaxError: unterminated string literal when i load up this page.  going to another video then back does not produce the error.  but if i refresh or load the link fresh i get the error every time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.load http://my.break.com/content/view.aspx?ContentID=485692
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
get the error, hit ok and video plays as normal

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Confirmed with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008050804 Minefield/3.0pre

When I change the useragent string to Firefox 2, I don't see the error.

Comment 2

[Sylvain Pasche]

Bad browser sniffing strikes again:

In:

http://media1.break.com/static/app/v1/global/js/dynamicstatscontent.js

if (BrowserDetect.browser == "Firefox")

     XmlDoc.normalize();

var messageNode = XmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("Message");



var jsonDoc;

jsonDoc = messageNode[0].firstChild.nodeValue;


When using Minefield, BrowserDetect.browser returns "Mozilla", so the returned document is not normalized. messageNode has several text node children, so only part of the returned JSON string is set in the jsonDoc variable. This leads to the parse error.

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Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.