Re: Recent Facebook Issues

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