"Content Encoding Error" on Mac, Windows, NOT ubuntu

Asked by Peter Fenwick

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Displaying the page "http://www.princess.com/learn/ships/sp/index.html" Firefox gives a "Content Encoding Error" on both Mac and Windows XP, but not on Ubuntu.

Many, perhaps all, pages for other ships in this directory work properly.

All systems are up to date with Firefox and other releases. (This is being reported from Ubuntu.)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686

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Peter Fenwick (pbfenwick) said :
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Peter Fenwick (pbfenwick) said :
#2

The attached files are probably irrelevant because they are for Ubuntu, which is the only OS that works!

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Florian Diesch (diesch) said :
#3

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and trying to help make Ubuntu better. However, the issue you are reporting doesn't affect any software provided by the Ubuntu project.
Because of this the Ubuntu project can not fix your particular bug so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker.

We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

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Andy Ruddock (andy-ruddock) said :
#4

What are the settings for "character encoding" in the other browsers (found under "View -> Character encoding" in firefox with Ubuntu.
The page reports itself as being encoded utf-8.

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Peter Fenwick (pbfenwick) said :
#5

Andy Ruddock wrote:
> Your question #57060 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/57060
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> Andy Ruddock requested for more information:
> What are the settings for "character encoding" in the other browsers (found under "View -> Character encoding" in firefox with Ubuntu.
> The page reports itself as being encoded utf-8.
>
>
All browsers show Unicode UTF-8, just as set up by default. (And I
thought that the error repoted via Firefox would be a Firefox error, not
a Ubuntu error!)

Peter Fenwick

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Florian Diesch (diesch) said :
#6

Do you get an error when using other browsers on Mac and Windows?
Do still get the error if you switch off JavaScript in Firefox?

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Peter Fenwick (pbfenwick) said :
#7

Florian Diesch wrote:
> Your question #57060 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/57060
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Florian Diesch proposed the following answer:
> Do you get an error when using other browsers on Mac and Windows?
> Do still get the error if you switch off JavaScript in Firefox?
>
On the Mac --
Safari works.
Internet Explorer gives no error but displays only part of the page.
Camino works.
Netscape (V 7.2) works.

Turning Javascript off makes no difference

I can't access the PC right now.

Firefox Error Console on the Mac reports --
Warning: Expected end of value for property but found '15px0'. Error in
parsing value for property 'margin'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://www.princess.com/css/cms/cruises.css
Line: 1359

I would report the problem directly to the Web page owner, but they
don't seem to provide any email access.

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Florian Diesch (diesch) said :
#8

That '15px0' is a typo, but "Content Encoding Error" would be a misleading error message for this, it sounds more like a non-UTF-8 code in a UTF-8 encoded file.
But maybe they have some other error in one of the included files.

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