483871 - Firefox enters an infinite loop when receiving application/vnd.mozilla.maybe.feed as content type

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox Graveyard :: RSS Discovery and Preview, defect)

Description

[Fernando Altomare Serboncini]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090307 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Shiretoko/3.1b3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090307 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Shiretoko/3.1b3

If a server sends a xml feed with the type application/vnd.mozilla.maybe.feed as content-type, firefox starts to send multiple requests to the same server over and over again and never stops.

I know servers shouldn't send that (I was trying to force the "feed subscribe" page for a particular feed, but didn't suceed)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a server that answers application/vnd.mozilla.maybe.feed as content type for rss feeds
2. Open that URL on firefox
3. Infinite multiple requests are sent

Comment 1

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Is this still happening on the newest Firefox 3.5?

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.