530359 - cattlenetwork.com -- Sniffing for Firefox, Not for Gecko

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[David E. Ross]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 SeaMonkey/2.0

When requesting the cited Web page via SeaMonkey 2.0 (UA string in Build Identifier), I get the following error (with some line-breaks inserted):  

XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </meta>.
Location: http://www.cattlenetwork.com/
Line Number 36, Column 449:<meta name="google-site-verification" content="OaEYk1WjScjIOpwuOyxCWyPJhJk0F9byX3q7s6cgtOQ" />
<link href="/App_Themes/Theme/CSSHandler.axd?page=JGiJdDpvd5mqQf4kon3jcktmlugEgTLeXrO97BQ6_M0zuv2f1x9gDI74u0-Lq79G0&amp;t=-enbEn1smA5dIAmLvd63r98KRSZX9FhMgM3HF72lIjk1&amp;p=11Ir3EFxTdMkv009Q5tOcQ2" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
<meta name="description" content="Up To The Minute Beef Cattle News &amp; Information Ranging From Ranch To Retail " />
</head>

If I spoof Firefox 3.5 with the UA string: 
  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) 
      Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3
I can then view the page.  


Reproducible: Always




Validating the URI at W3C's <http://validator.w3.org/> shows 762 XHTML errors.  Validating the source (via copy and paste) when not spoofing shows 388 XHTML errors.  Validating the source when spoofing Firefox shows 787 XHTML errors.  

The results when using a blank UA are the same as when not spoofing.

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Yep, happens in Camino with the "like Firefox" portion of the UA removed, too. Does not happen with the default Camino UA string.

Comment 2

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

WFM in SeaMonkey 2.26. Closing.