131432 - location.href doesn't work in some contexts

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Baron]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031115

In the example I constructed, when this function is
called from another function, but it works when it
is called by itself.

function endq()
{subq.location.href="http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~baron/end.htm"}



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load test2.htm and do what it says.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  Hangs.  Nothing happens.  (Different error messages
in different variants.)


Expected Results:  displays page end.htm


This may be related to bug 125003.  I'm not sure

The contrasting case
http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~baron/test1.htm
works fine.  I can't figure out why location.href
works in some contexts but not others.

(Nor can I figure out how to use the new debugger,
in the time I have.)

I do questionnaire studies on the web, and the framework
shown in test2.htm is a stripped down version of what
they all do.  With Mozilla 0.9.9 they all stopped
working.  I can work around this problem by including
end.htm as a text string, but this does seem to be a
bug.

For an example of a less-stripped-down version of a
questionnaire that used to work but doesn't work, see
http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~baron/trade6.htm

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

It looks like we suddenly seem to be on a different host from the "top" and
hence can't access some properties due to security restrictions.

To session history, since all the content is document.written

Comment 2

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

I have fixed bug 125225 and (inturn) bug 125003. I would like you to try this in
today's build. 

Comment 3

[Gene Carnes]

Attachment: Test case

As of 4/15/2002, using the latest build, I'm having the same issue with
location.href not working: it won't work from the web but works fine locally.
When viewing from the web, the source code is all screwed up-- variables are
zero'd out, there's the NoError() function added to my code, any functions in
the same script tags are being wiped out, except for the 'function name() {}'
part. Even commenting out the line with the location.href still gives me the
same results. If I remove "location.href" entirely from the page, everything
works as it should and the functions are as they should be.

Comment 4

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

I went to the above url and did what it said. I went to page Item1 then Item 2 ,
then filled out a questionaire and clicked submit. Everything went Ok and I
could click back through all of them and get to this bug.  What is the problem? 

Comment 5

[Jonathan Baron]

In response to the last comment by Radha Kulkarni, I ask, "What build
were you using?"  For me, this bug has been fixed for some time.  I'm
now using 2002041114 (Linux) with no problems, but it was fixed well
before that.

Comment 6

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

I used a trunk build from 04/16/02.

Comment 7

[Gene Carnes]

Ignore my comment #3. I thought I had everything covered, but I just disovered
something locally that was interferring with the script. Once turned off, the
location.href worked as it should.

Comment 8

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

Based on previous comments, marking this WFM.