120802 - After submitting form, 2 alerts are shown as if I had reloaded the page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 105636

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

Description

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

This happens always when submitting the form on the given URL. I've noticed that
since at least 0.9.7, and also tried with the latest nightly 20020117. Somebody
on Chatzilla tried to reproduce that with WinXP, but he didn't see that. So even
if I have CANCONFIRM, I'll leave this bug UNCONFIRMED until someone can
reproduce that with Windows 98.

Steps:

1) Submit the form of http://www.xe.com/ucc/
2) You should get an alert saying: "The page you are trying to view contains
   POSTDATA. 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."
3) Click OK
4) You should get another alert saying: "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."
   (Emphasis by me. It's the only difference between the first alert)
5) Click OK
6) The page should display correctly

These alerts are annoyances, for sure, but as a tester, I can live with it.
However today I experienced some problems on my e-banking account. After
clicking the second time "OK", A page shortly appeared with an error message
(meaning that not all data had been submitted as expected) which was immediately
redirected to a page telling that the service is down. However, the service was
not down, I tried it immediately after with IE and it worked OK. A test
immediately after with Mozilla showed the same problem as before.

Comment 1

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

Marking as a dupe of bug 105636. Reporter: I recommend that you try a fresh
profile, as that solved the problem for me (you can manage/create profiles with
"mozilla.exe -profilemanager").

-> Form submission, for parity with dupe

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105636 ***