Bug#436696: iceweasel: Intermittent problems with 304 HTTP redirects

[Ambrose Li]

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 04:54:10PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for the delayed answer.
> 
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 11:23:59AM -0500, Ambrose Li wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 02:27:40AM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote:
> > > Do you have any recipe to reproduce this?
> > 
> > Unfortunately no. It happens unpredictably, but fairly frequently
> > with our web site if you leave iceweasel running for a couple of
> > days without quitting. And this doesn't seem to happen with any
> > other browser.
> > 
> > I don't really think this is an iceweasel (i.e., Debian-specific)
> > thing, but I haven't used non-Debian firefox on Linux for so long
> > that I don't know if I should file the bug upstream or not.
> 
> Have you been able to reproduce this problem in the past years with the
> newer versions of Iceweasel from either Lenny or Squeeze ?

Sorry but I have not been able to update my Debian for the past year
due to some conflict between libc and kernel versions. If I manage to
upgrade libc I'll upgrade my Debian and test this out.

> I, for one, certainly never experienced such bugs, while I'm leaving
> iceweasel virtually always running.

Perhaps it has to do the way my proxy settings are configured? Just
a wild guess.

> Cheers,
> 
> Mike

Cheers,
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