136540 - View Source doesn't update when page changes (esp. CGI output)

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: View Source, defect)

Description

[Larry Kuenning]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221
BuildID:    2001122106

When a page changes -- at any rate when a CGI script accessed with POST produces
new results because it is given new data -- a newly created View Source window
continues to show the same source as the previous version.

I do NOT mean that an existing View Source window stays the same.  Even if you
close the old View Source window and open a new one, you get the old source.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to http://www.qhpress.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla.cgi
2.  Follow simple directions on page


Actual Results:  Newly created View Source windows continue to look the same
even though the document changes.  (In Netscape 6.1, View Source becomes
unavailable when document changes.)

Expected Results:  Should show the actual source of the current version of the
document, or of the current output of a CGI script.

http://www.qhpress.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla.cgi was created specifically to
illustrate this problem.  It also lists results found in two versions of
Mozilla, two of Netscape, and some other browsers.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

WFM, XP, 2002040903. The page source shows <!-- count = 1 --> after i press
button and view source again. 

Comment 2

[Adam Hauner]

There is already similar bug.

Comment 3

[Adam Hauner]

Ignore my last comment (wrong tab). =(

Comment 4

[Adam Hauner]

Reporter, could you install the latest nightly build and try it again? Your
build is really very old.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/

Comment 5

[Larry Kuenning]

When I submitted this I hadn't seen the heavily commented bug 55583, which looks
like the same problem.

Will try suggestion of downloading latest build.

Comment 6

[Larry Kuenning]

Yes, on installing the latest build I see it works.

This is my first time using Bugzilla.  Am I supposed to change the status of
this bug myself, or leave that to the person it was assigned to (Doron Rosenberg)?

Given that the latest build contains a fix, is it ok for me to delete the page I
made to illustrate it?

Comment 7

[Adam Hauner]

Marking WFM regarding last reporter's comment. Larry, you could delete your page.

Comment 8

[timeless]

vrfy wfm per reporter

reporter: if you report a bug and later find that it works for you then you can resolve it yourself as 'worksforme' (although if other people are also experiencing a bug you should probably make sure people sort of agree that it's generally working before resolving).

thanks for using bugzilla and mozilla

Comment 9

[mirionc]

it is working for ver 1.3 but not for 1.4.a
OS: Win 2000 Pro