I can't even explain what is happening here. Try to load the above URL and Mozilla just spins just trying to load it. It continually tries to load it. Build is 1.2a

I agree this site is not available to build 200209014; it cyclically reloads on the robots info page. Interestingly what should appear is rendered just before loading a different page!

I think you may find additional comments and some possible reasons for this page failing to load at http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=40368&threshold=0&commentsort=0&tid=137&mode=thread&pid=4300401#4300530

It also happens in Linux. But as the last comment said, it really has some stupid refresh in it. Probably INVALID or Tech Evangelism. pi

This still begs the question why it works in IE and Netscape 4.x..

-> reassign to docshell component adam, radha: here's yet another site with an invalid meta redirect... IE and NN4 manage ok, so perhaps we should too??

reassigning for real :)

The meta refresh is in the "http://www.undetectables.com/" frame that the url above loads. It is: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content=";URL="> Is the answer here to ignore it?

Documentation says the following refresh URI strings are acceptable. For some reason the comments say URI though it is URL that is parsed for. // "" || ";" || "," // empty string. use the currently loaded URI // and refresh immediately. // "X" || "X;" || "X," // Refresh the currently loaded URI in X seconds. // "X; URI" || "X, URI" // Refresh using URI as the destination in X seconds. // "URI" || "; URI" || ", URI" // Refresh immediately using URI as the destination. Therfore according to this, the site's ";URL=" is nearly legal except for that equals sign on the end. Unfortunately this syntax is hopelessly undocumented, I haven't found any detailed mention of the grammar for this thing. Does anyone know if there's an RFC/doc for this? I search around devedge.netscape.com and found some example, but no grammar. http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/htmlguid/tags3.htm#1697602 http://wp.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/pushpull.html Personally I reckon the code should do nothing if no URL and no time is specified, but if there are sites relying on this behaviour they will break. Opinions?

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duplicate of bug 109076 ?

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Test case 1 contains a broken refresh string (no semicolon between seconds and url) <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0 URL=http://www.mozilla.org/">

Testcase 2 <meta http-equiv="refresh" content=";URL="> This empty refresh while valid makes Mozilla spin around forever which is undesirable behaviour.

Testcase 3 <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0xyz,URL=http://www.mozilla.org/"> Garbage in the seconds field

Patch fixes all three testcases. Mozilla does nothing now in the case of content=";URI="

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Comment on attachment 111053 [details] [diff] [review] Patch Radha, can you review this please?

Comment on attachment 111053 [details] [diff] [review] Patch Hi Alec, can I have an sr on this patch? The patch attempts to make the meta refresh string parser more tolerant of formatting issues such as forgetting the comma and not specifying a uri or a refresh time. Approval risk summary. This bug has been duped quite a bit so it will be a visible fix for sites busted because of bad meta refreshes. Existing functionality appears to be preserved on the sites I've tried it with.

Comment on attachment 111053 [details] [diff] [review] Patch sr=alecf but should we ignore the redirect entirely, or make it a zero-second redirect?

The problem with ";URL=" is that continuously refreshes the page to itself which results in browser misbehaviour. The patch now makes refresh do nothing at all if neither a time nor a URL is specified. If the site want this continuous refresh behaviour they can be specific and put "0" as their the meta refresh value and everything should be fine.

ah! good point.

Comment on attachment 111053 [details] [diff] [review] Patch a=asa (on behalf of drivers) for checkin to 1.3beta.

Fix is checked in

WFM for bugs 170021 and 145654 Using build 1.3b Great job guys. PM

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The fix only partially fixed testcase 2, where the URL is not blank, a content of ; URL=valid_url will refresh immediately. IE6 will not refresh.

Testcase with no seconds value for the time, <meta http-equiv="refresh" content=";URL=http://www.mozilla.org/">

Eric Are you saying that testcase 3 should NOT do a refresh? I know that IE does not.

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all testcases WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20081222 Shiretoko/3.1b3pre

Could use regression tests here.