Closed Bug 91875 Opened 23 years ago Closed 20 years ago

offline mode: POST DATA warning in form submission [form sub]

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P4)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Core & HTML
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: bugzilla3, Assigned: alexsavulov)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: checkmac checkwin) 

build 2001072003, Win95/98:
1. Enter some Bugzilla bug report page
2. Go offline
3. Press "Commit"

A dialog box warning says : The page you are trying to view contains POSTDATA
that has expired from cache..." and asks for confirmation. It is confusing and
one can't get out of this unless he remembers to come back in online mode.
<erasing earlier comments> Ok, confirming this.  I just went offline and was
unable to submit this form with an alternate set of comments.

Over to form submission.  Platform -> All, OS -> All
Assignee: asa → rods
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Browser-General → Form Submission
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows 95 → All
QA Contact: doronr → vladimire
Hardware: PC → All
Over to eric
Assignee: rods → evaughan
to forms
Assignee: evaughan → alexsavulov
Should we change the text to warn the user that he's in offline mode?
*** Bug 114591 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Summary: offline mode: POST DATA warning in form submission → offline mode: POST DATA warning in form submission [from sub]
This also occurs with expired POST cache.

You should be able to hit cancel, hit back, and have it skip the bad page and go
to the one before it.

BTW - why does the POST cache expire so quickly?
summary correction
Summary: offline mode: POST DATA warning in form submission [from sub] → offline mode: POST DATA warning in form submission [form sub]
Notice that NS 6.2 does skip the offending page. I'm wondering if older versions
of Mozilla did. This might be a regression.
setting milestone
Target Milestone: --- → Future
test
Priority: -- → P4
*** Bug 157428 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 162291 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Here's a related one:

1. Go offline.
2. Visit Google (www.google.com), forgetting that you're offline
   (in the case, I was dialed in but forgot the browser was offline)
3. Browser has loaded cached page from Google
4. Type in search terms and press Submit. You get the submitting form
   data over unencrypted connection warning, but nothing happens.

Mozilla should warn users when submitting forms offline that the browser is
offline  and that form submissions will not work.
The patch in bug 45421 fixed this.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Depends on: 45421
Resolution: --- → FIXED
V: Mozilla 1.6f, linux.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
QA Contact: vladimire → benc
Whiteboard: checkmac checkwin
Component: HTML: Form Submission → DOM: Core & HTML
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