RE: [viewvc-users] firefox update seems to have broken viewvc

David Laight <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:18:11 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.viewcvs.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> >>> Hrm.  I can't think of any reason why whitespace would be rendered
> >>> differently in Firefox 33.0.  I'm able successfully view a local View=
VC
> >>> 1.1.5 installation using Firefox 33.0 (Ubuntu Linux), in fact.  Have =
you
> >>> tried clearing out your browser caches?
> >> Someone here who knows more about browsers discovered that the style s=
heet
> >> wasn't being applied, the found that it is probably this bug:
> >>
> >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D1083090
> >>
> >>
> >> Seems firefox tightened up on rejecting bad/mismatched headers on css =
and js.
> >> Solution is to disable on-the-fly compression of the stylesheet at the=
 server end.
> >>
> >> So Mozilla have just broken a lot of web sites.

It broke more sites than they expected.

The checks have been relaxed for Firefox 33.1.
I think they'll now accept the data is the 'EOF' from zlib
matches the end of the received data - regardless of the
'content-length'.

=09David

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