656201 - Rhino can't load scripts which are served gzip'd

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Rhino Graveyard :: Core, defect)

Description

[Scott Morrison]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.57 Safari/534.24
Build Identifier: Rhino 1.7 release 2 2009 03 22

Loading a script from a server which serves the script gzip'd causes Rhino to break. Loading the same script from a server which does not gzip works fine. An example is http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start the Rhino REPL
2. enter "load('http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML')"
3. watch Rhino die

Actual Results:  
The screen fills with non-printable characters, interspersed with messages about syntax errors and illegal characters.

Expected Results:  
Returned to the REPL with the script loaded.

Comment 1

[Alex Bagehot]

Works for me, the URL responds with uncompressed content and rhino loads it. Although the script fails with an error.

Comment 2

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Closing. Bug management is now done here:
https://github.com/mozilla/rhino