[Bug-gnuzilla] Content Encoding Error

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[Bug-gnuzilla] Content Encoding Error - 52.6.0 (32-bit)

kardan

2018-04-29 17:23:10 UTC

Hi,

(i am not on this list, please CC me)

as regular user of Tor Browser I have to access some websites without
tor and tried Icecat 52.6.0 (32-bit) as I prefer it for (hopefully)
better privacy defaults compared to firefox-esr or chrome.

The website of interest (wordpress.com/log-in) resulted in

"Content Encoding Error

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an
invalid or unsupported form of compression.

Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem."

Encryption: TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, 256bit, TLS 1.2

When I selected "Submit Feedback ..." i got the same error for
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnuzilla
(TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, 256bit, TLS 1.0)

Same for about:support (https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:IceCat/).

Why are these not supported?

Is it possible to add a feature "access anyway" for this error?

Thanks for your work!
kardan

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David Hedlund

2018-04-30 03:59:55 UTC

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Felix, can you please report this to
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?52993 ?

Disclaimer: "People who want to post comments to this bug should first
make sure it's not the cause of a related bug: First session for new
profile doesn't work - https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50937"

Post by kardan
Hi,
(i am not on this list, please CC me)
as regular user of Tor Browser I have to access some websites without
tor and tried Icecat 52.6.0 (32-bit) as I prefer it for (hopefully)
better privacy defaults compared to firefox-esr or chrome.
The website of interest (wordpress.com/log-in) resulted in
"Content Encoding Error
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an
invalid or unsupported form of compression.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem."
Encryption: TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, 256bit, TLS 1.2
When I selected "Submit Feedback ..." i got the same error for
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnuzilla
(TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, 256bit, TLS 1.0)
Same for about:support (https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:IceCat/).
Why are these not supported?
Is it possible to add a feature "access anyway" for this error?
Thanks for your work!
kardan
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kardan

2018-04-30 09:17:21 UTC

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Hi,

Am Mon, 30 Apr 2018 05:59:55 +0200

Post by David Hedlund
Felix, can you please report this to
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?52993 ?
Disclaimer: "People who want to post comments to this bug should
first make sure it's not the cause of a related bug: First session
for new profile doesn't work - https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50937"

You are right, after restarting icecat this issue has gone. Good luck
fixing this! (alternatively you can add in red to the welcome mesage
"Please restart Icecat for your beloved browser to work" :)

Kardan

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Narcis Garcia

2018-04-30 08:41:19 UTC

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Note that alternative to Chrome is not Chromium but Iridium (
www.iridiumbrowser.de )

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bill-auger

2018-04-30 09:02:43 UTC

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Post by Narcis Garcia
Note that alternative to Chrome is not Chromium but Iridium (

note that iridium is NOT an acceptable alternative to chrome nor
chromium - any freedom issues that may be present in chromium are
almost certainly present in all chromium-derived browsers,
including iridium[1]

there has been much discussion about this for several years now and it
is hoped that the FSF may make some statement about it soon[2]

[1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/directory-discuss/2017-11/msg00
003.html

[2]: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2018-03/msg00
080.html