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Espadax4
Espadax4

Reputation: 133

Why do some requests in Firebug never finish loading?

I make multiple POST requests in my page, which are displayed in Firebug like they never finish loading, i.e. they have a yellow background, the throbber is displayed and there is no HTTP status code.

POST requests shown in Firebug as never finishing loading

What does that mean?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 186

Answers (1)

Sebastian Zartner
Sebastian Zartner

Reputation: 20095

Firebug has some bugs related to blocked and redirected requests. These bugs cause the requests to be displayed as they would never finish loading.

Blocked requests

Issue 6749: Blocked requests never finish loading

In case you have a secure page (requested via HTTPS), though load insecure content (via HTTP) in it - either statically via HTML like e.g. <img src="http://..." alt=""/> or dynamically via JavaScript by adding these tags dynamically or making AJAX requests - you can check this via the Console panel. Blocked requests produce the following message:

Loading mixed (insecure) display content on a secure page

Here's an example of how this looks like:

Messages for blocked content

Redirected requests

Issue 5550: Some requests never finish loading on redirects

If your page creates requests, which are redirected to another URL, this can be tracked within the Net panel as a separate request. In that case you may need to enable the Persist button within the panel toolbar to keep the requests displayed when you revisit/reload the page. Such requests will be displayed before the redirected request:

Redirected request to a website

Conclusion

If you get the expected response for your requests, the problem lies most probably within Firebug. You may want to compare the result with the one of the Network panel of the Firefox integrated devtools to confirm that.

Upvotes: 1

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