47978 - refresh (via meta http-equiv="refresh") does not stop/cancel when using frames

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Images, Video, and HTML Frames, defect, P3)

Description

[Robert Ernst]

We have a web site with 2 frames: the left one contains a navigation menu with
links, the right one a page selected via the navigation menu. For pages that use
the <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; http://xyz..."> tag, there is the
following problem:

- selecting a link in the navigation menu causes the corresponding page
  to be displayed in the right frame, and every 5 seconds, to be refreshed
- after selecting an other link in the menu, the corresponding page is
  displayed in the right frame
- after 5 seconds, the _first_ page with the refresh tag re-appears in the right
  frame
- the only way to get rid of this, is closing the frameset

Seems like a timer is still active for the refresh, even if a new page got
loaded into the frame.

Comment 1

[Robert Ernst]

Attachment: testcase for refresh bug (6 small html files in one textfile)

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Robert Ernst, which build did you test this with.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Confirmed in 20000829 WinNT4. Attaching .zip, -> HTMLFrames, nominating nsbeta3 
- this is a silly bug and needs fixing.

Gerv

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Attachment: Zip of six test case files (internationalised to English ;-)

Comment 5

[Robert Ernst]

> Robert Ernst, which build did you test this with.

I used Mozilla M17:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686; en-US; m17) Gecko/20000807

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Fixed in 20001004 Win95.

Gerv

Comment 7

[Chris Petersen]

Verified fixed in the 2001010203 build.