viewing forum with Firefox

[borgec]

I found a strange bug. I cannot seem to access this site with Firefox 9.0.1

I get the following error:

Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

Client sent malformed Host header

Web Server at cichlid.org

Thought I'd add it here to be looked at when we get a programmer

[Decker504]

I ran into same type of bug w/ MFK except it was the opposite. I can only access their page w/ firefox not my droid browser. In fact, I only use firefox on my droid to look to look at MFK. My browser works fine w/ ACA and seemingly everything else.

[Dean Hougen]

Chris,

Thanks for reporting the problem. What OS are you using? (I just tried with Firefox 9.0.1 on Mac OS X and Windows Vista and had no problems.)


Dean

[Lisachromis]

I'm on the forum using FF 9.0.1

[pitdogg2]

I'm on the forum using FF 9.0.1

me too using XPsp3

[borgec]

Chris,

Thanks for reporting the problem. What OS are you using? (I just tried with Firefox 9.0.1 on Mac OS X and Windows Vista and had no problems.)


Dean

It's the strangest thing. This is my work laptop, running XP SP3. I've also tried running Firefox with all add-ons disabled, and it has the same problem. I'm at a loss, as I see other people are running FF 9.0.1 & XP SP3 with no issues. This also just started happening in the last week or two. I actually thought the server was down, didn't realize it was a browser issue until I accessed the site on my iPad.

p.s. Congrats Dean on the chairmanship

[Dean Hougen]

Chris,

Do you have another browser that you could try from your XP box to help us isolate the problem? (I typically have 4-5 browsers installed on any given machine in order to test things and deal with problematic websites.)

Thanks on the PS, by the way.


Dean

[borgec]

Chris,

Do you have another browser that you could try from your XP box to help us isolate the problem? (I typically have 4-5 browsers installed on any given machine in order to test things and deal with problematic websites.)

Thanks on the PS, by the way.


Dean

I can access with both IE & Chrome. I don't have safari installed.

My guess would be it is a browser setting that is causing the issue, I just cannot isolate it. I have tried accessing many other VB forums with Firefox and I have no issues, just this one.

[slimbolen99]

I get that same thing with Facebook sometimes; but I'm on Mozilla 8.0 / Windows XP. I think it has something to do with Java. I'll have to look at the error more closely next time I get it.

Next time you get the error, go to "Help" and then "Trouble Shooting Information". Send that to one of the web admins; that will help them troubleshoot.

[Dean Hougen]

Thanks for the additional info, Chris. I'm still in the dark but that does help me to think of where to look.

Brian, that is a good idea to get us yet more info.

One possibility is it has something to do with redirection or auto logins but I'm not sure how to test that. I guess you could clear cookies and/or stored username and password info and see if that helps.


Dean

[slimbolen99]

When I have the issue with Facebook, I have to close out of my browser and reopen it to rectify the problem. Also seems to occur more frequently when I am opening a link in a new tab, which I do by clicking my mouse wheel.

[borgec]

The problem seems to have rectified itself. I have also just updated to FF 10.0 which works as well.

Strange

[Dean Hougen]

Strange indeed. But good to know. Thanks!


Dean

[Lotsapetsgarfhts]

Sporadically I have problems viewing things using IE, and usually they correct themselves in time. I was on this site Wednesday using Firefox 9.0 the other day after I uploaded some photos to Photobucket, for some reason their bulk uploader will not work with IE.