58658 - redirect to same page after POST sends you to redirect_loop.xul

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 44153

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect, P3)

Description

[matthewb]

If I post to a page e.g. redirect.view, which redirects back to itself, I end 
up on redirect_loop.xul.

The redirect loop detection does not handle this reasonable case.  The reason 
for the redirect (rather than returning the information directly) is to avoid 
warnings about reposting information if the user tries to refresh the page.

cf. nsHTTPChannel::Redirect()

Comment 1

[Luis Villa]

Yup. This is related to bug 40080, but because the status of that bug is
unclear, I won't mark it as a dup. It is also related to 44153, which seems to
indicate that there is some "brokenness" in redirect.xul but doesn't say what it
is. Confirming, but I don't know what (if anything) will happen to it.

Comment 2

[timeless]

*** Bug 62242 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Darin Fisher]

->me

Comment 4

[Darin Fisher]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44153 ***

Comment 5

[benc]

qa to me.
+verifyme
I'm using the URL field test case, but not clear on what should happen.

Clicking on the button in Mozilla does not produce errors or other strageness. 

But clicking on it in Communicator returns a "Document contains no data" error.

Comment 6

[Darin Fisher]

redirect_loop.xul is never loaded now-a-days.