Closed Bug 589150 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Firefox is not able to open the above page saying "Content Encoding Error". IE 6 is able to open the same.

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 523859

People

(Reporter: gouravmukherjee, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729) I wanted to look @ the Javadocs for the Cipher class and tried opening the javadocs hosted on Oracle's website. Firefox failed to display the page mentioning the message Content Encoding Error The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression. * Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. Why is a browser like Mozilla failing to open a simple JavaDocs page while Internet Explorer 6 is able to open it easily. I would have not been surprised if it was the other way around ;) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to the Javadocs page hosted by Oracle http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/ 2. Look for the Javadocs page for the Cipher class Actual Results: Content Encoding Error The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression. * Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. Expected Results: Page should have been displayed. N/A
Please use shift+reload if you get the error
Thanks for the info, it works fine. However, I suppose, it could be useful for the end user if this suggestion was given along with the error :).
The server had a short time problem and sent broken data. That got saved in the cache and a normal reload reloads from the cache, a shift+reload throws away the cache for this URL. This shouldn't be a problem if this occurs only one time but some users get this much more frequently.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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