From: Brion Vibber <brion@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:39:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * (bug 9044) Send a comment with action=raw pages in CSS/JS output mode
X-Git-Tag: 1.31.0-rc.0~53993
X-Git-Url: http://git.cyclocoop.org/%7B%24www_url%7Dadmin/password.php?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1ef7033d4c830657f2eeffdcea02e55abde65f62;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git

* (bug 9044) Send a comment with action=raw pages in CSS/JS output mode
  to work around IE/Mac bug where empty pages time out verrrrryyyyy slowly,
  particularly with new keepalive-friendly HTTP on Wikipedia
---

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 4dd78556ef..24399bace7 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -217,6 +217,9 @@ lighter making things easier to read.
   on a previously fixed attack vector was discovered by Moshe BA from BugSec:
   http://www.bugsec.com/articles.php?Security=24
 * Trackback responses now specify XML content type
+* (bug 9044) Send a comment with action=raw pages in CSS/JS output mode
+  to work around IE/Mac bug where empty pages time out verrrrryyyyy slowly,
+  particularly with new keepalive-friendly HTTP on Wikipedia
 
 
 == Languages updated ==
diff --git a/includes/RawPage.php b/includes/RawPage.php
index 08130181ca..2b2a5ce4f8 100644
--- a/includes/RawPage.php
+++ b/includes/RawPage.php
@@ -191,6 +191,20 @@ class RawPage {
 			header( "HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found" );
 		}
 		
+		// Special-case for empty CSS/JS
+		//
+		// Internet Explorer for Mac handles empty files badly;
+		// particularly so when keep-alive is active. It can lead
+		// to long timeouts as it seems to sit there waiting for
+		// more data that never comes.
+		//
+		// Give it a comment...
+		if( strlen( $text ) == 0 &&
+			($this->mContentType == 'text/css' ||
+				$this->mContentType == 'text/javascript' ) ) {
+			return "/* Empty */";
+		}
+		
 		return $this->parseArticleText( $text );
 	}