On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:35:48 -0500 Michael Cronenworth wrote:
The price is ASCII text embedded in the HTML page. IPv6 has absolutely nothing to do with this issue. You could view the source code of the page and find the price. It is a rendering problem (that I, and others cannot reproduce).
No, the price is ascii text embedded in the javascript obtained from content.newegg.com, and with ip6v enabled firefox and wget consistently fail to resolve the IP for content.newegg.com.
There is no mythical IPv6 monster eating your bytes.
True: There is an *actual* IPv6 monster eating the DNS for content.newegg.com, no myth. 100% correlation with turning the flag on and off in firefox as many times as I care to test it.
Almost certainly nothing to do with firefox itself though, more likely some combination of strange an wondrous problems with firewalls and DNS server forwarding and wot-not on the long an winding road out of the corporate firewall I was inside to the actual lookup of content.newegg.com (but there are a gazillion other <whatever>.newegg.com URLs it has no problem resolving).