584419 - Bad Request on SFGate on Minefield - request header too large?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 572223

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

Description

[Bret Reckard]

So, no idea how one would test this, but I've noticed this error message has cropped up over the last week when trying to access SFgate.com content via Minefield.  If I copy/paste the URL into FFx4 Beta or Chrome the page loads just fine.  Minefield however, produces the Error message below.  

Possibly Related: When logging into Googledocs last week I was asked to reset my cookies.  I'm sure I can do the same om SFgate.com to fix the problem, but most users probably wouldn't be able to figure this out.  Seems worth tracking.

Running: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:2.0b3pre) Gecko/20100803 Minefield/4.0b3pre

Message:

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.

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Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Looks like we're duplicating stuff in that cookie or something...

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

Fixed as of Monday's nightly. I'd clear out your cookies once you switch to the new nightly -- the duplicates will still be in there, which is bad. ;)