Bug 447476

Summary:	Konqueror shows erroneous(?) "Broken connection" error message.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Chris Schembari <cschembari>
Component:	kdebase	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	8	CC:	kevin, ltinkl, rdieter
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OS:	Linux
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Description Chris Schembari 2008-05-20 01:01:50 UTC

Description of problem:
  The following error message pops up whenever I go to, go back to, or refresh
the FedoraForum main page (http://fedoraforum.org/) or the Guidelines page
(http://www.fedoraforum.org/?view=guide) in Konqueror:
  "Connection to host fedoraforum.org is broken." [Accompanied by KDE
breaking-glass sound.]
  No further data is given, but even while the message displays, the page loads
as usual, without any further sign of any "broken connection". This happens
repeatedly, every time I load either of those two specific pages in Konqueror,
but it does not happen when I use Firefox or Epiphany on this site, and it does
not happen in Konqueror when I go to any of the other pages within the
FedoraForum site. I don't off-hand remember it happening in Konqueror on any
other site, either.
  A bit of malformed code on the page, perhaps? But even so, Konqueror should
maybe... automatically check for this circumstance, whatever it may be, and
handle it differently so as to verify that a connection really is broken before
launching that annoying error message?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
  I first noted this when running "Konqueror 3.5.8-31.fc7 Fedora (using KDE
3.5.8-19.fc7 Fedora)", but problem persists now with "Konqueror 3.5.9-3.fc7
Fedora (using KDE 3.5.9-5.fc7 Fedora)".

How reproducible:
Every time I go to one of those two pages at FF.

Additional info:
  I'm also sending a message to the forum maintainers so they can look into it,
if they can.

Comment 1 Chris Schembari 2008-05-20 01:08:05 UTC

I just noticed this in the above:
It doesn't matter whether I type in "http://fedoraforum.org/" or
"http://www.fedoraforum.org/".

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-06-17 03:08:27 UTC

Fedora 7 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on June 13, 2008. 
Fedora 7 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not 
receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we 
are closing this bug. 

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version 
of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 3 Kevin Kofler 2008-06-17 03:14:23 UTC

Still happens in kdebase-3.5.9-7.fc8.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 10:44:30 UTC

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Comment 5 Kevin Kofler 2008-11-26 11:19:05 UTC

I can't reproduce this with F9.

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 07:49:19 UTC

Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.