78743 - page appears to continuosly reload

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 77321

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect)

Description

[Jim Robinson]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4-jbr i686; en-US; rv:0.8.1+)
Gecko/20010502
BuildID:    2001050206

The above page seems to continously reload, without ever displaying,
when an attempt is made to access it. 

NOTE: access to this page works for mozilla 0.8.1 20010422

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to http://www.investorservicesinc.cibc.com/Public/en/index.html


Actual Results:  The page continously reloads, without displaying.

Seen on tty:

Document http://www.investorservicesinc.cibc.com/Public/en/index.html loaded
successfully
Document http://www.investorservicesinc.cibc.com/Public/en/index.html loaded
successfully
Document http://www.investorservicesinc.cibc.com/Public/en/index.html loaded
successfully
Document http://www.investorservicesinc.cibc.com/Public/en/index.html loaded
successfully
Document http://www.investorservicesinc.cibc.com/Public/en/index.html loaded
successfully
Document http://www.investorservicesinc.cibc.com/Public/en/index.html loaded
successfully
Document http://www.investorservicesinc.cibc.com/Public/en/index.html loaded
successfully
Document http://www.investorservicesinc.cibc.com/Public/en/index.html loaded
successfully
Document http://www.investorservicesinc.cibc.com/Public/en/index.html loaded
successfully
Document http://www.investorservicesinc.cibc.com/Public/en/index.html loaded
successfully
Document http://www.investorservicesinc.cibc.com/Public/en/index.html loaded
successfully
etc, etc, etc

Expected Results:  The page should have been displayed.

Just a reiteration of the fact that this page is accessible
with Mozilla 0.8.1 (20010422)

Comment 1

[Conor Lennon]

This is due to the following:
The url is a frameset (Not relevant)
The Frameset tag is:
<frameset onResize="reloadPage()"  rows="78,*" cols="*" frameborder=NO
framespacing=0 border="0">

The reloadPage function is:
 function reloadPage()
 {
  if(navigator.appName == "Netscape") 
  {
   if(parseFloat(navigator.appVersion)!=6) 
   {
     self.location.reload();
   }
  }
 }

Therefore Netscape 6 won't have a problem with this page.

This is a duplicate of Bug 77321.

Comment 2

[Jim Robinson]

Given that 77321 was opened a month ago, I am not expecting a
speedy resolution to this problem. So, in the absence of a fix,
is there anything I can set in my preferences file that will
"fool" the web page into thinking not doing the reload?

Changing general.useragent.override did not seem to make a difference?

Comment 3

[timeless]

unfortunately navigator override is for http headers or something. js 
engine/dom? don't have a pref for lying about navigator object internals.

we can either RFE for that or complain to the webmaster. Complain=reassign to 
Evangelism component.

Comment 4

[Jim Robinson]

Given that Opera (linux), MS IE, Netscape 4.77 and 6.01 all work, complaining
to the web master would probably not get very far. At any rate, this is a
bona fide bug, is it not? The reload should only be happening on a resize, 
and since I am not resizing, the browser should not be continuously reloading.

Comment 5

[timeless]

perhaps dom events for firing?

Comment 6

[Conor Lennon]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77321 ***

Comment 7

[Vladimir Ermakov]

verifying duplicate