114591 - POSTDATA message each time I click back

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

I don't know if this is a dupe or not, but I couldn't find one. 201111603 build:


"The page you are trying to view contains POSTDATA that has expired from cache.
If you resend the data, any action the form carried out (such as a search or
online purchase) will be repeated. To resend the data, click OK. Otherwise,
click Cancel."

I get that message sometimes when I click back, and when I hit cancel and back
again, the message comes up again. It should send me two pages back the seoond
time I hit cancel when the form data expires.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

session history.

Comment 2

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

That dialog will show up when you are trying to go back to a page that was a 
result of a post operation (like search submit or a purchase on a ecommerce
site). *and* the postdata has expired from cache.  Clicking cancel on that
dialog,  will not take you back without the postdata.   It simply cancels the
back operation and the browser is pretty much where it was before the back was
clicked. So, if you don't want to repost the data to the server (which could
mean, redoing the search or re-purchasing a product), You should press cancel on
that dialog and probably use the go menu to skip that page. 

Comment 3

[Dimitrios]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91875 ***

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying Duplicate bugs which haven't changed since 2001.12.31.

set your search string in mail to "CitizenGKar" to filter out these messages.

Comment 5

[benc]

REOPEN: I don't know why that was a dupe of the other POSTDATA error bugs.

Comment 6

[Andrew Hagen]

This is the oldest unconfirmed bug.

Please try Mozilla 1.7 RC1. Does the problem still occur?

Comment 7

[Charlie Paglee]

Duh. How hard would it be for someone to test and see if it occurs? Go find a
form that generates this message and see if cancel will allow you to go back.

YES! THIS OCCURS IN FIREFOX 0.92

Can the developers please look at:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=99885&postdays=0&postorder=asc&postsperpage=15&start=15

and implement disabling cache expiration as an option?

(In reply to comment #6)
> This is the oldest unconfirmed bug.
> 
> Please try Mozilla 1.7 RC1. Does the problem still occur?

Comment 8

[Brian 'netdragon' Bober]

This is related, but prob not the same issue. On hotmail.com, when I type an
email message, send it, then click back, the email compose form becomes empty.
Shouldn't it contain the text I typed for the message body?

Comment 9

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

In the process of migrating remaining bugs to the new severity system, the severity for this bug cannot be automatically determined. Please retriage this bug using the new severity system.

Comment 10

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

This is the necessary behavior. It is possible to skip the page which requires re-posting by using the back button menu and selecting any page earlier in history.