564634 - Tries to load images within JSON (improperly encoded), causing unnecessary 404s

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[fr]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100423 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100423 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.5

Firefox tries to load images for image tags within JSON, but the encoding (backslashes and quotes) is not fixed, causing unnecessary requests resulting in 404-errors

Example (as recorded by LiveHeader):
GET /inventar/%5C%22lib%5C/status_1_sm.png%5C%22 HTTP/1.1

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install LiveHeaders
2. open URL given as sample
Actual Results:  
user experience is slowed down, the error log on the server get filled

Expected Results:  
either preload the correct images using the right URLs or just wait until the image is actually required on the page

Comment 1

[Tanner M [:Tannn3r]]

Can you still reproduce this bug in Firefox 6?

Please update to Firefox 6 or later, update your plugins, and retest in a new profile. If you still see the issue with the updated version of Firefox, please post here. Otherwise, please close as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.