70188 - html displays junk on while viewing some pages

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 68483

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Mark Slater]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; 0.9) Gecko/20010223
BuildID:    2001022311

I've had this on numerous sites, so it's not a problem with HTML or anything,
but rather with the browser. The browser just displays total gibberish instead
of rendering the page. I have no idea how to reproduce it, just surfing around a
bit seems to do it. Also not necessarily on that URL above.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open browser
2. Surf around a bit


Actual Results:  See garbled text

Expected Results:  Render the page

This seems to be a bit hard to reproduce, but it'll happen sooner or later if
you surf around a bit. sorry for being so vague...

Comment 1

[Mark Slater]

Attachment: Screenshot of what I (sometimes) see

Comment 2

[Fabian Guisset]

never had this problem on windows95.. could it be your charset is set incorrectly?

Comment 3

[David Hallowell]

Not seen this on exactly the same build you're using (2001022311
 win2k)

Been running this instance of moz for hours too.

Comment 4

[Håkan Waara]

I've seen this.. may this be related to dougt's necko changes?

Comment 5

[Mark Slater]

My charset is set to Western (ISO 8859-1), and Auto-Detect switched off...

Comment 6

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

I would be surprised if it is related to my changes. Ajusting summary.

Comment 7

[doctor__j]

Just a wild guess on the cause of the problem.

I doubt if this problem is caused by the browser (somehow) messing up with the 
file type of the graphics files and put up all raw data into the browser window 
(instead of rendering it as a nice graphic)???

In other words, Mozilla treat GIF, JPG file types as plain text and then 
displaying the GIF and JPG in garbage texts...  That is, HTML GET Header reply 
getting messed up.

Comment 8

[doctor__j]

Attachment: I think this screenshot might you give more clue to the problem

Comment 9

[Håkan Waara]

Dougt: if you look at the latest screenshot then you see that it first displays
junk, then a bit of the HTTP header then the page, hence why I cc'ed you.

Comment 10

[Darin Fisher]

Reporter: is your system multiprocessor?

Comment 11

[Mark Slater]

Nope :)

Comment 12

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

is this bug related to bug 70065 ?

Comment 13

[Mark Slater]

Looking at the screenshot, i'd say yes. But i'm no programmer so it could be 
something completely different. *shrug*

Comment 14

[Håkan Waara]

I'd say those two are related, but this bug is far worse! If this is easy to
fix, then it should definatly go in mozilla0.9...

Darin, is this your bug? Dougt thought so when I asked him on IRC.

Comment 15

[Darin Fisher]

I have a hunch that this could be related to the socket transport changes I
made on dougt's branch.  Investigating...

Comment 16

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

per conversation, I am going to try to look at this for 0.9.  

Comment 17

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

Marking this as a duplicate.  

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 68483 ***

Comment 18

[Tom Everingham]

verified dup