847080 - Manchester Evening News broken on Firefox due to illegal Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Monkey]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:21.0) Gecko/20130227 Firefox/21.0
Build ID: 20130227115730

Steps to reproduce:

Visited http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ or http://www.mirror.co.uk/


Actual results:

Error generated is: Corrupted Content Error
 The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because an error in the data transmission was detected.
  The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because an error in the data transmission was detected.Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.


Expected results:

Should have taken to the site, multiple machines affected running Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.04. Deleted the ~/.mozilla folder and relaunched to no avail. 

Other browsers (Epiphany / Google Chrome) render the site as expected.

Also, as this is browser specific, the error message stating that you should contact the webmaster which is a little misleading.

Comment 1

[Jason Duell]

Bug 845789 handles the mirror.co.uk case.  Let's keep this one open for the Manchester evening news.  I've sent email to the webmaster, the editor, and their various news desks.

Comment 2

[Jason Duell]

Note that we may remove the restriction that causes this site to fail if/when we fix bug 847533.  But I'm keeping this bug open to hopefully persuade the site to do a server-side fix here in the meantime so we don't have >6 weeks bustage here.

Comment 3

[Jason Duell]

Site is working again.