Bug 69147 - META HTTP-refresh Redirects are converted into strange HTML not understand by Netscape4 or Opera6
Summary: META HTTP-refresh Redirects are converted into strange HTML not understand by...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: privoxy
Version: 1.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Karsten Hopp
QA Contact:
URL: http://lists.netsys.com/
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-18 10:36 UTC by Peter Bieringer
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-07-18 10:36:19 UTC
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Description Peter Bieringer 2002-07-18 10:36:15 UTC
Description of problem:
Browsing to e.g. "http://lists.netsys.com/" will not work because of converting the META HTTP-redirect into strange HTML which isn't understood by 
Netscape4 or Opera6

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.9.15-4


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to URL http://lists.netsys.com through privoxy
	

Actual Results:  # telnet ***** 8118
Trying *****...
Connected to ****
Escape character is '^]'.
GET http://lists.netsys.com/ HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 10:20:01 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix)
Last-Modified: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 16:45:33 GMT
ETag: "2af2-79-3d2b132d"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 104
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: close

<HEAD>
<link rev="x-refresh" href=/mailman/listinfo>
</HEAD>
<body  BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
</body>
</html>


Expected Results:  More compatible HTML code, e.g. the original one

# telnet lists.netsys.com 80
Trying 199.201.233.17...
Connected to lists.netsys.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: lists.netsys.com

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 10:31:17 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix)
Last-Modified: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 16:45:33 GMT
ETag: "2af2-79-3d2b132d"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 121
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="0; url=/mailman/listinfo">
</HEAD>
<body  BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
</body>
</html>



Additional info:

Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2002-08-07 12:37:52 UTC
I could get to  http://lists.netsys.com through privoxy-2.9.16-1 without 
any problems. Seems to be fixed upstream. 
Please reopen this report if you still have problems with the latest privoxy  
package from Rawhide.


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