95195 - web page is stuck in a refresh loop(continuous)

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P4)

Description

[Mike]

While surfing this companies website I went from the link on selfpowered washing
machines to the water systems to this link(used links on the left hand side of
the screen-last one by picture of product on the left side).  Mozilla starts to
open the page, gets about half way through opening/downloading it then stops,
and finally begins to download it from the beginning again.  It is stuck in a
continuous loop.  It seems like as soon as it tries to display the pic of the
product on the right it starts over(berk1.jpg).  I opened this same page(went
through same pages in Communicator 4.77) and did not encounter this problem.  

It does however seem to refresh it self every 10 to 20 seconds in Communicator
though.

Comment 1

[Mike]

Attachment: webpage source

Comment 2

[Mike]

Just checked the above page on my wifes pc - Win98 and IE 5.0.  It too is
refreshing it self every 10 to 20 seconds.  Mozilla probably would do the same
if it finished downloading the entire page in time.  

I will report it to the webmaster as I doubt it is a bug in all three browsers.

Comment 3

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Do webmasters not check their pages anymore?  This looks like a business site
too.  Wonder how he expects to sell anything.  I can just imagine Target or
Wal-Mart saying "Hi, Welcome to our store!" and then escorting you out onto a
conveyor belt that leads right back to where you were over and over again...

Over to Evangelism.

Comment 4

[timeless]

the useragent is supposed to load the page and wait before it refreshes, right?

Comment 5

[Michael Gabriel]

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="10"> 

means refresh every 10 secs, so i dont see the problem
Works For me

Comment 6

[jag (Peter Annema)]

Indeed, Mozilla is doing exactly what it's supposed to. Not a bug, would mark
"INVALID", but for now evangelism is fine. Mike, I understand you already
contacted the webmaster? Could you give us an update on his/her response?

Comment 7

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Looks like jag hit the invalid button my mistake, reopening

Comment 8

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

And reassigning to the person who contacted.

Comment 9

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

And just incase you didn't get enough spam: ASSIGNING

Comment 10

[jag (Peter Annema)]

Whoops. Thank zach.

Comment 11

[Mike]

I did contact the webmaster but they never messaged back.  

Comment 12

[Michael Gabriel]

i dont understand all this hassle, if a webmaster is dumb enough to refresh his 
page every 10 secs its his personal problem and not anything we should worry 
about, lets mark this bug invalid and move on to real bugs

Comment 13

[Mike]

webmaster fault.  marking invalid

Comment 14

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

and now 404 (I guess it made to much traffic ;)