From: Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid   
      
   Dirk Fieldhouse wrote:   
   > On 10/12/2025 20:40, David H Durgee wrote:   
   >> ...>   
   >>   
   >> Firefox 146.0 just hit the repository today and I installed it. Same error:   
   >>   
   >> "Bad Request   
   >>   
   >> Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.   
   >> Size of a request header field exceeds server limit."   
   >>   
   >> This error occurs at https://secure.ssa.gov/RIL/   
   >>   
   >> In Chromium or SeaMonkey this displays the options to choose your login   
   >> method or to create an account to do so.   
   >>   
   >> This is on Linux Mint 22 x64 on my laptop.   
   >>   
   > I've seen this error as a result of passing wrongly constructed cookie   
   > data, but that shouldn't be happen with a browser.   
   >   
   > What FF (or indeed SM to stay on topic) is actually sending in the   
   > headers is shown in the browser's Dev Tools Network tab.   
   >   
   > The SM problem originally quoted   
   >   
   >> Error: SyntaxError: bad method definition   
   >   
   > occurs because SM doesn't (yet) understand the ES6 class syntax:   
   >    
   >   
   > The chance of getting the site not to send class declarations, even if   
   > the site developers are using tools that would generate JS without them,   
   > is very slim.   
   >   
   > /df   
   >   
      
   My point earlier was that if a current version of Firefox (ESR or   
   bleeding edge) cannot handle this, the site is screwing up.   
      
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