Bug 411051 - "301 Moved Permanently" without Location header causes blank page
"301 Moved Permanently" without Location header causes blank page
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: [obsolete] Backend:Mozilla
2.16.x
Other Linux
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
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Reported: 2007-02-23 01:50 UTC by Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Modified: 2011-10-17 01:53 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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GNOME version: 2.15/2.16

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Description Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) 2007-02-23 01:50:56 UTC 
Gnome Web Browser 2.16.1, Ubuntu 6.10

1.  Go to <http://tinyurl.com/3aebyy>.

What happens: You get a blank page.
What should happen: You get an error page.
Why: tinyurl.com returns the status "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently", but without any Location: header. In other words, it's trying to redirect without saying what it's redirecting to.

The error page should be similar to that for a failed DNS lookup (with links to Google Cache and Internet Archive), but with a heading something like "This page does not exist", and the suggestion limited to "Check that the address is correct."
Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2007-03-17 22:54:04 UTC 
I get the same behaviour in Firefox.
Comment 2 Xan Lopez 2010-02-12 22:50:15 UTC 
Same happens with WebKit. Is there anybody that does this right?
Comment 3 Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) 2010-04-25 22:28:32 UTC 
I don't understand the question. Are you suggesting that we shouldn't do this unless another browser does it first?
Comment 4 Xan Lopez 2010-04-25 22:42:28 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> I don't understand the question. Are you suggesting that we shouldn't do this
> unless another browser does it first?

No, I was just wondering if there was any browser that did this to see their behavior.
Comment 5 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2011-08-24 03:59:00 UTC 
 is the bug still relevant in epiphany 3.0?
is this possible?
Comment 6 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2011-10-17 01:53:39 UTC 
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for.
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