Re: Recent Facebook Issues

From: Kinkie <gkinkie_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:30:22 +0200

You can simply try to access facebook with konqueror. It complains
rather loudly, drops the excess data and the site generally doesn't
work (has been dong so for a few days, but only NOW I'm connecting the
wires...)

  Kinkie

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_squid-cache.org> wrote:
> Ok, this happens for all versions?
>
> I can bring this up with facebook engineering if someone provides me
> with further information.
>
>
> Adrian
>
> 2009/10/9 Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>:
>> Thanks to several people I've managed to track down why the facebook issues
>> are suddenly appearing and why its intermittent.
>>
>> On the sometimes works sometimes doesn't problem. facebook.com does
>> User-Agent header checks and sends back one of four pages.
>> 1) a generic page saying 'please use another browser'.
>> 2) a redirect to login for each of IE, Firefox and Safari
>> 3) a home page (if cookies sent initially)
>>
>> going through the login redirects to the page also presented at (3) above.
>>
>> The home page is the real problem. When cookies are presented it ships
>> without Content-Length (fine).
>> When they _are_ present, ie after the user has logged in it ships with
>> Content-Length: 18487 and data size of 18576.
>>
>> Amos
>>
>>
>

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    /kinkie
Received on Fri Oct 09 2009 - 05:30:34 MDT

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