Firefox was down last night
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Firefox was down last night
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Re: Firefox was down last night
#2Firefox stopped working last night due to "Infinite loop in HTTP3 hangs socket thread". Seems to be working fine again.
Re: Firefox was down last night
#3This was extensively discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29918052
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#4This was extensively discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29918052
Right now, that discussion is on page 7, below older posts with only 21 and 27 upvotes.
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Re: Firefox was down last night
#5This was extensively discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29918052
Apologies I should have checked deeper before posting.
Re: Firefox was down last night
#6It's concerning to me that it's even possible for Firefox to be "down". It's should be a web browser, not a service. Web browsers have uses beyond being connected to the internet. Does Firefox even work on a non-internet connected LAN?
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#7Pieces of how this happened, and some of the fixes implemented, don't instill much confidence.
Amongst other issues, this was triggered by a lack of case-insensitive handling of the HTTP "Content-Length" header. https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D135871 has one of the commits that landed as a result of this, and while it does change the handling to be case insensitive, it raises even more questions on the HTTP/3 stack. For instance, this is doing a string search across the HTTP headers for the string "content-length". Does that string appear in a cookie? Well you just got the wrong content length. It's extremely concerning that this isn't downstream of something that has pre-parsed the headers and has them indexed by their parsed out names.