On 3/26/2014 4:21 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > When trying to view stories at nydailynews.com, I often get this error > message: > > Content Encoding Error > > The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an > invalid or unsupported form of compression. > > The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an > invalid or unsupported form of compression. > > Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. > > [Try again] > > [end quote] > > What's up with that? IE never has any problem displaying the pages, but > SM won't even show me the source code. > > Here's an example, but pretty much any story from the "Editor's Picks" > rubric on the right side of their pages does this: > > <http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/drug-testing-welfare-recipients-big-mistake-conservatives-article-1.1734098> > Windows 7 (x64) SeaMonkey 2.25
That page has 33 HTML and 95 CSS errors. Nevertheless, I was able to load the page and view it. It looked okay. According to the HTTP headers, all content encoding involved gzip; and some transfer encoding was chunked (compressed). Gecko handles both without any problems (chunked resulting in deflate). However, my preferences are set to load only images from the same domain as I requested (www.nydailynews.com in this case). I also have AdBlock Plus and FlashBlock enabled, which might have blocked some content. I retried the page allowing all images and disabling AdBlock Plus and FlashBlock. I still was able to load the page and view it, and it still looked okay. Again, content encoding involved gzip. Besides chunked transfer encoding, however, there were a few elements transferred with binary encoding, all from verisign.com and all related to OCSP verification of the validity of a site SSL certificate. Since this is not an HTTPS page, I am not sure why any certificate verification was performed. -- David E. Ross The Crimea is Putin's Sudetenland. The Ukraine will be Putin's Czechoslovakia. See <http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_PutinUkraine.html>. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
