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Description of problem: Image not showing up in Firefox on FC6 i686 system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): uname -a output: Linux solo.lancas.org 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 #1 SMP Wed Dec 20 14:51:19 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Firefox version: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061219 Fedora/1.5.0.9-1.fc6 Firefox/1.5.0.9 pango-text How reproducible: Very. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start firefox 2.Go to web page: http://www.lancas.org/ 3.At the bottom of the page just above the "Create Using:" and an image for Open Office, there is "Hosted by:" and there is supposed to be an image for Hosted by 1&1". However on FC6 with Firefox 1.5.0.9 it does not show up. Using firefox 1.5.0.6 it shows up fine. Actual results: firefox 1.5.0.9 does not show the image. firefox 2.0 does not show the image. firefox 1.5.0.9 shows the image fine. Expected results: 1and1 image should show on all firefox browsers. Additional info:
I see the image on a fully updated FC6 i686 box using firefox-1.5.0.9-1.fc6.
I just updated using 'yum update' and rebooted. Should be fully updated as well. Still no 1and1 logo. uname -a output: Linux solo.lancas.org 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 #1 SMP Wed Jan 10 19:28:18 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Firefox: firefox-1.5.0.9-1.fc6 Any other ideas?
When you say that it does not show the image, do you see an icon for a missing image, or nothing at all? Also, I just checked the Google cache for the page (the page itself is not accessible for me at the moment) and the link for the image is http://banner.1and1.com/xml/banner?size=5%26%25number=1 Can you see the image using this link directly?
The link shows up fine, directly. However, the following test page code, using the recommended link code from 1and1.com does not. <HTML> <BODY> <P ALIGN=CENTER>Hosted by: <A HREF="http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=13749571" TARGET="_blank"> <IMG SRC="http://banner.1and1.com/xml/banner?size=5%26%25number=1" NAME="1and1Graphics2" ALT="1and1 Banner" ALIGN=BOTTOM WIDTH=140 HEIGHT=28 BORDER=0></A></P> </BODY> </HTML>
I'm not familiar with HTML, but you should be able to strip out some of this to create a simplest possible test case, and then fiddle with it to see if you can find exactly what is causing the image to be hidden.
I haven't found the offending item, yet. It is interesting to note that this code snippit works fine on firefox 1.5.0.9 on Ubuntu Linux and on Firefox 2.0 on Windows XP.
I saved the gif file to my home directory. Replacing the source with the URL: file:///home/rlancas/banner.gif worked even with the entire snippet from 1and1.com. I then took a look at the 3 special characters in the original URL. The "?", "&" (%26), and % (%25). I don't think that is the problem, however, since the same snippet works fine on firefox 1.5.0.9 on Ubuntu Linux and Firefox on Windows XP. I wish I had access to the XML code at 1and1.com to check and seeh what they are doing to return the gif file. Anyway, I copied the file banner.gif to bann?er&%.gif and tried to load it like the URL has specified as file:///home/rlancas/bann?er%26%25.gif. It would not load. When I went and did a File -> Open and selected the file bann?er&%.gif it came in as bann%3Fer&%25.gif. Not an exact test since there is still XML code in between. However, based on this short test could the ? somehow be passed incorrectly from the screen input? Needless to say, I'm still confused but willing to try other tests if you need me to.
Weird, I can reproduce it on RHEL5 with firefox-1.5.0.9-6.el5 and I cannot reproduce it with epiphany-2.16.0-4.fc6 using the same Gecko library (using --nodeps and symlink /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.7 -> /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.9/ ) In the same time http://banner.1and1.com/xml/banner?size=5%26%25number=1 (URL of the image) shows just fine in firefox.
Images go through system libraries, e.g. libpng, libjpeg, etc. Maybe one of those is the culprit.
Works for me (FF2.0&F7).