Re: Illegal JSON response when clicking a Submit button

Dave Yeo <[email protected]> Mon, 25 Apr 2016 07:26:34 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.os2
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Peter Brown wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Using Seamonkey - User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:24.0)
> Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 SeaMonkey/2.21
>
> I have tried to post in a WDSibyl forum a couple of times and every time
> I get the a large errr window appear with the title
>
>     The page at http://wdsibyl.org says:
>
>
> The error message starts with
>
>    Error! Illegal JSON response:
>    SyntaxError: syntax errorin
>    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
>
>
> I have reported the problem to the WDSibyl webmaster who responded that
> he has checked his logfiles and there is no corresponding error entries;
> also the website has not changed since my last post so the problem must
> be with your browser.
>
>
> The main problem with the above response is that I have not changed my
> browser since I last posted in those forums which, along with the
> Seamonkey error message window title, indicates the problem is elsewhere.
>
> Possibly related: I do have NoScript installed - wdsibyl.org is Allowed,
> not blocked.
>
> Anyone have any idea how to resolve this problem?
>

Have you tested in safe mode (Help --> Restart With Addons Disabled)? 
Have you tried a new test profile?
Dave