597747 - Images not loading due to HTTP redirects

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[DmD Lj]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20100918 Firefox/4.0b7pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20100918 Firefox/4.0b7pre

Steps to Reproduce
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1. go to http://imgur.com/TRVhn.jpg
2. Normally it would redirect, but FF 4 nightly current build fails this
3.  Get "cannot be displayed because it contains errors"



What should have happened:
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Follow redirect, load picture, show me picture of why FF is awesome.



What actually happened:
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FF broke the gloating. I cannot gloat over IE sucking because FF sucks more!

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko/20100918 Firefox/4.0b7pre

works for me

I receive a 301 permanent redirect to http://i.imgur.com/TRVhn.jpg

Maybe you have bad version of the image in the cache. Or a bad redirect. It might help when you clear the cache, or if you press shift while hitting the reload button.

Comment 2

[DmD Lj]

Nop. Tried, cache cleared, no change.

Comment 3

[DmD Lj]

Attachment: Screenshot #1

Comment 4

[DmD Lj]

Attachment: Screenshot #2

Comment 5

[DmD Lj]

Attachment: Screenshot #3

Comment 6

[DmD Lj]

Okay, NoScript is the culprit here.  Some more trial and error bogged it down to noscript breaking http redirects somehow.

Comment 7

[Jo Hermans]

That's weird. JavaScript is not involved here, it's a simple 301 redirect.

Comment 8

[:aceman]

I can confirm this. Not this particular link but it happens for me since about beta 6 on many pages, not just images. Like bugzilla, slashdot.org etc. The attached screenshots are what I see too on half of the sites I try to access. Sometimes klicking the "here" link shows the site fine, sometimes not. I use noscript too. Noscript does a lot more than javascript blocking. It blocks XSS attacks, redirects, objects, plugins. It is quite possible it can be the problem. But I haven't found which option to disable to fix this.

Comment 9

[DmD Lj]

http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5060&sid=b4658808ebb1fa4c3838b8ca037a78d3

Discusses and solves the issue.

Comment 10

[:aceman]

Noscript claims a fix for this problem at http://noscript.net/changelog in version 2.0.3.1.rc5 . Installing version 2.0.3.2 fixed this for me. I suggest leaving in INVALID state.