876103 - Firefox reports connection reset even if the page arrives completely

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[edi]

Attachment: x.sh

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130512193902

Steps to reproduce:

I have created a simple http server that uses xinetd and a script that writes a simple http/1.1 page that uses Connection: close header.
The trick is that after all the page is written I wait 10 secs then exit the scrip.
My instinct tells me that if the tcp stream is closed after a while since the last character, the file decriptor read actually returns 0 or -1 with eof, the browser will no longer look to the connection header and sees the connection termination as an error.


Actual results:

the browser displays the page then after the 10 secs it will display the "connection reset" message.


Expected results:

the browser should just display the page.

Comment 1

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

Thanks for filing the bug. My apologies that it didn't get followed up on.

I just tried it out now and it is works for me. Perhaps something has changed. If you verify it is still an issue with firefox 47 I'd be happy to work with you on it (just reopen).