Package: iceweasel Version: 2.0.0.3-1 Severity: normal
This has been a problem for some years already so this is not new. After an indeterminate amount of time (usually several days, sometimes shorter but sometimes longer), firefox/iceweasel will suddenly stop processing 304 HTTP redirects correctly. It will see the 304, attempt to load the redirected page, but instead of loading it from the origin server or the configured proxy, will (apparently) attempt to load it from the local file system. The result is this error message: File not found Iceweasel can't find the file at (path to the page excluding protocol and server name). * Check the file name for capitalization or other typing errors. * Check to see if the file was moved, renamed or deleted. (Try Again) (Note: This conclusion is drawn from the following observations: 1. Both the proxy and the origin server sees and logs the initial request for the page; both logs the 304 reply 2. The error message contains the path to the redirected page, so the browser sees the 304 reply with the correct path 3. However, the origin server does not see (log) any request for the redirected page, so the browser has stopped contacting the server after seeing the 304) At this point firefox/iceweasel will respond to reloads as follows: - Regular Reload - no effect (continues to display the above error) - Shift-Reload - This seems to reset firefox/iceweasel's internal state and cause it to contact the origin server or configured proxy again -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.2 Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5 (charmap=BIG5) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages iceweasel depends on: ii debianutils 2.22.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii fontconfig 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libatk1.0-0 1.18.0-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.6-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.4.10-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.2-20070609-1 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.12-1+b1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.10.13-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libmyspell3c2 1:3.1-18 MySpell spellchecking library ii libpango1.0-0 1.16.4-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-2 PNG library - runtime ii libstdc++6 4.2-20070609-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxp6 1:1.0.0.xsf1-1 X Printing Extension (Xprint) clie ii libxrender1 1:0.9.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii psmisc 22.5-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime iceweasel recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
