RequestPolicy/tractest — Issue #264: Firefox 7 hangs on redirects to some broken servers
Author: jsamuel
Created: 2011-12-22 02:50:03+00:00
State: open
Labels: extension

A user reported Firefox 7 on Win 64 hanging with RP when visiting a certain URL (not listing here at the moment). I was able to see similar behavior twice, once on Ubuntu 64-bit and once on Win 7 32-bit. That URL was redirecting to another domain whose webserver was not properly responding. Connections with telnet and curl would hang until timeout. I noticed the server was sometimes accessible.

There may be something going on where redirects to some non-working servers causes the browser to hang.