62114 - Traversing redirect link puts three entries in history.

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: History: Global, defect, P3)

Description

[edburns]

To reproduce, just run the very well written testcase URL.

Comment 1

[Viswanath Ramachandran]

nav triage team: looked at this bug, it is not a beta stopper. bulk update of 
several such bugs. 

Comment 2

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

I'm not sure if this should be fixed. OR if the behavior described in the
testcase is what we want. First of all, this is a global history problem.  And I
think this is the side effect of a bug I recently fixed, 41973. That bug claims
just the opposite of this one, ie.,  in server side redirections, the original
url is not added to global History thereby not providing link color.  I think
that is a more legitimate problem (eg., link coloring not in yahoo and
netcenter) than this one.

I let alecf decide what to do this one.

Comment 3

[Alec Flett]

I can only assume radha meant to make this History: Global, not Help

Comment 4

[Raghu Sakleshpur]

Tried the test case described in the url above on windows NT platform using
mozilla nightly build: 2001041704. It does occur on this platform as well.
Updating the bug platform/OS categories to win NT for now.

Comment 5

[Alec Flett]

I'm sure it occurs on all platforms.

Comment 6

[Claudius Gayle]

changing to all/all. I'm not sure this isn't desired behavior either. We do all the right things
w.r.t Session History, so why shouldn't your global history be the ultimate reference for all
pages you actually visited - no matter how briefly?

Comment 7

[Alec Flett]

argh.. take two at reassigning history bugs to new owner

Comment 8

[Blake Ross]

I consider this the correct behavior. You went to those pages, even if just for
a short while.

Comment 9

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying WontFix bugs which haven't changed since 2001-12-31.

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