137784 - "Save As" of a Javascript generated page does not save the original source.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 115328

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Jean-Marc Desperrier]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020415
BuildID:    2002041503

Usually it seems that what Mozilla saves with "save page as" is the original
page, not the page as modified by Javascript, but at least for this page, it is
beaten and does save a modified page.

I could reproduce this under Linux, with 2002041521.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open and save the linked page on disk
2. Open the saved page
3. At the top of the page, the advertissement picture appears twice. 
It was there just once in the original page.

Actual Results:  
View source on the server will show your this inside the page

<td valign="middle">
<script language="javascript">
function affichepub(){
	var str="";
	str+="<a href=banners.php?op=click&bid=46 target=_blank><img
src=http://www.cibleclick.com/cibles/banniere/symp.cfm?site_id=66209739&friend_id=502907710&banniere_id=3003
border=0></a>";
	document.write(str);
	document.close();
}
</script>
<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#cbb673"
height="62"><tbody><tr>
<td bgcolor="#cbb673"><script language="javascript">affichepub();</script></td>
</tr></tbody></table>
</td>

If you watch the save page, you find this instead inside the source :

<td valign="middle">
<script language="javascript">

function affichepub(){
	var str="";
	str+="<a href=banners.php?op=click&bid=46 target=_blank><img
src=http://www.cibleclick.com/cibles/banniere/symp.cfm?site_id=66209739&friend_id=502907710&banniere_id=3003
border=0></a>";
	document.write(str);
	document.close();
}

</script>
<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#cbb673"
height="62"><tbody><tr>
<td bgcolor="#cbb673"><script language="javascript">affichepub();</script><a
href="http://dico.fj.free.fr/mozilla/bugbar/banners.php?op=click&amp;bid=46"
target="_blank"><img src="critiqueview.good2_files/symp.gif" border="0"></a></td>
</tr></tbody></table>
</td>

What as been saved on the disk is the page after the execution of 
affichepub(). 
When the page is loaded affichepub() is executed again, so the image will appear
twice.

Expected Results:  The page should be saved as it was before the firts execution
of affichepub().

As bug 120457 shows, some user want exactly the opposite of that.
They want the page saved to have the current content, not the original provided
by the server. 
Maybe there should be a choice for the user about what to save.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Are you saving "html only" or "complete"?

Comment 2

[Jean-Marc Desperrier]

"complete", even if it's not that complete as some of the background images are
not saved, but this is another bug.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Ah, in that case this is a duplicate of "Dirty DOM being fed to
webbrowserpersist - need to parse a fresh one from cache"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115328 ***

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marking verified as a duplicate.

if you decide to reopen this bug, please clarify why.

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