Description of problem: The following page: https://www.1np.nl is not accessible using firefox as installed by the packagemanagement in Fedora 11. I have installed the same version of firefox into /opt using the vanilla mozilla download and found the page perfectly accessible. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Firefox 3.5.2 How reproducible: Works every time Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start firefox 2.enter https://www.1np.nl as url 3. Actual results: firefox displays this: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>403 Forbidden</title> </head><body> <h1>Forbidden</h1> <p>You don't have permission to access / on this server.</p> <p>Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p> </body></html> Expected results: The website as displayed by, for instance, vanilla firefox downloaded from mozilla and installed into /opt. Additional info:
This is weird: upstream binary works, lynx, links, curl, midori, epiphany/webkit all work, our firefox/i686 doesn't.
and firefox/x86_64 doesn't work either.
and seamonkey 1.1.18 is broken too...strange.
Without debugging in depth, I'd point a finger at nss.
OK, kai?
A package built with --without-system-nss loads the page ok.
This seems to be user agent thing. Do this: - use fedora 11 - use nspr+nss+xulrunner+firefox as provided by fedora - visit https://www.1np.nl => failure Now install the user agent switcher add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 restart firefox menu tools, edit user agent, new, new user agent - description: plain - remove contents of field "user agent" and copy/paste this: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090909 Fedora/3.5.3-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.3 (make sure you get the full line, despite a potential word wrap in bugzilla) - clear the contents of fields "vendor" and "vendor sub" - ok, ok - use tools useragent and switch to "plain" - go to https://www.1np.nl => SUCCESS!!!!!! switch back end forth between user agent "default" and "plain", and you get "failure" and "success" respectively, even within a single session. I believe this given web site has server side logic on complains based on certain user agents, and I'm very frustrated about having spent so much time searching for a problem at the NSS level. Please, someone confirm and close this bug as invalid, thanks.
Martin, I'm surprised that your "--without-system-nss" build gave you success, it shouldn't have had an influence on the user agent. I have played with various combinations of other NSS libraries, even replacing all systemwide nspr and nss .so files with ones from a download official mozilla binary (circumventing rpm) and I still had a failure with the fedora build.
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