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Re: Firefox and http://www.elance.com/ (Another POST without Content-Length issue ?)

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How -fantastic- !

Can you take a tcpdump of the session please and wrap it all up in
a bugzilla report?

I have a feeling they're assuming HTTP/1.1 with 100 Expect, and fail
miserably with HTTP/1.0 ?

(Yeah, doesn't work for me with Firefox 2.X on my G4 iBook. Works under
Safari though!)


Adrian

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008, Simon Waters wrote:
> Firefox seems to send the "sign-in" POST request without a Content-Length 
> header for the "sign-In" link on "elance.com". At least I assume that is the 
> reason I couldn't login via Squid (411 ERROR saying length is required).
> 
> IE works, which may be down to how they generate the requests on different 
> browsers, as it sends a "Content-Length: 0" header in these requests.
> 
> Is there a config that makes this work with Squid? (Currently using Debian 
> Etch squid package 2.6.5-6).
> 
> Have they done a known gotcha in their Ajax?
> 
> Reproduce: 
> 
> Visit http://www.elance.com/
> Click on "sign-In"
> No sign-in dialogue appears.
> 
> When:
> 
> Always with Firefox via Squid.
> Never with IE.
> Never with Firefox without Squid.
> 
> Firefox 2.0.0.11 or Iceweasel 2.0.0.10 same, client Windows or Debian makes no 
> difference.
> 
> Error: 
> 
> 1200651675.192      1 212.24.80.83 TCP_DENIED/411 2658 POST 
> http://www.elance.com/php/reg/main/signInAHR.php? - NONE/- text/html
> 
> Tried "request_entities" option in the squid.conf no effect.
> 
> Firebug happily shows a nice informative bit under "XHR" queries, including 
> the full text of the Squid error - saying "knock it off with the malformed 
> requests" (I paraphrase in local idiom to make it challenging for those that 
> aren't native English speakers).

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