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Firefox will not load certain url's/websites that work in other browsers

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Whenever I try to load a website beginning with stk.co (e.g. stks.co/q1CqL ) Firefox gives the following error message:

The HTTP header field "Accept" with value "hc/url;*/*" could not be parsed.

The same URL loads easily in Internet Explorer and other browsers.

How can fix this and/or configure firefox to load this url?

Thanks!

Whenever I try to load a website beginning with stk.co (e.g. stks.co/q1CqL ) Firefox gives the following error message: The HTTP header field "Accept" with value "hc/url;*/*" could not be parsed. The same URL loads easily in Internet Explorer and other browsers. How can fix this and/or configure firefox to load this url? Thanks!

Gekose oplossing

You might have the "Accept" header customized from the default. Here's one place to check:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste accep and pause while the list is filtered

(3) If the network.http.accept.default preference is bolded and marked as user set, it has been modified from the default.

You could right-click > copy the preference and then paste it somewhere for safekeeping -- in case there is a good reason for it being customized, then right-click > Reset it to see whether that helps.

If it has not been modified from the default, one of your extensions or a proxy service may be modifying it on the fly.

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billpleo said

Whenever I try to load a website beginning with stk.co

stk.co doesn't load at all, and stk.com redirects to agi.com.

e.g. stks.co/q1CqL

The link works fine for me. It goes to tinyurl.com, then to traderfeed.blogspot.com. I'm using Firefox 35 on Windows 8.1.

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Gekose oplossing

You might have the "Accept" header customized from the default. Here's one place to check:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste accep and pause while the list is filtered

(3) If the network.http.accept.default preference is bolded and marked as user set, it has been modified from the default.

You could right-click > copy the preference and then paste it somewhere for safekeeping -- in case there is a good reason for it being customized, then right-click > Reset it to see whether that helps.

If it has not been modified from the default, one of your extensions or a proxy service may be modifying it on the fly.

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Just for documentation, here's what I see in the Fiddler debugging proxy for this shortened URL:

(1) Firefox requests: http://stks.co/q1CqL

GET http://stks.co/q1CqL HTTP/1.1
Host: stks.co
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
DNT: 1
Connection: keep-alive

Response is a 301 redirect with a new address

(2) Firefox requests: http://tinyurl.com/lkef9l2

GET http://tinyurl.com/lkef9l2 HTTP/1.1
Host: tinyurl.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
DNT: 1
Connection: keep-alive

Response is a 301 redirect with a new address

(3) Firefox requests http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2014/12/trading-success-lies-on-other-side-of.html

GET http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2014/12/trading-success-lies-on-other-side-of.html HTTP/1.1
Host: traderfeed.blogspot.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
DNT: 1
Connection: keep-alive

Response is 200 OK with HTML of the page

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Jefferson,

Wow, thanks!

You hit the nail on the head.

Reset to default. Works fine now. I'll keep an eye out for something that alter it in the future.

Thanks again.