452222 - firefox does not show 404 error on dead link

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 442255

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Andreas Moog]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071816 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071816 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.1

An Ubuntu-User reported this bug on Launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/259783

I visited http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/etqw/

Under 2.1 Retail Game I clicked the first link (for ETQW-client-1.4-full.x86.run) I get ... nothing.

No download. No Error report. Nothing.

using wget on same URL gives a 404 error.

So it is a dead link, but firefox stays ... "dumb".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit the site
2. Click the described Link

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
An 404-Error should be shown

Comment 1

[Andreas Moog]

Attachment: Livehttpheaders from the request. Notice the 404 gets sent.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

The link is http://zerowing.idsoftware.com:6969/torrents/18a2f91e7c54665d691c214fa0dbd667f6d55327.torrent

via http://web-sniffer.net 

HTTP Response Header
Name	Value	Delim
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Connection:	Close	
Content-Length:	0	

confirming with Seamonkey trunk