162902 - Certain navigation buttons don't work on savings bond direct website

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[Tim Lyon]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721
BuildID:    2002072104

http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/ols/olshome.htm is where to go to buy savings
bonds online.  After adding a bond to the shopping cart, the buttons that appear
on the next page, which are "Empty Cart", "Shop More" and "Check Out" don't do
anything.

I couldn't get it to work in Linux or Windows 98.

I tried Netscape 6.2 and it works with that.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/ols/olshome.htm
2.Click on "Go Shopping"
3.Fill out information for adding a savings bond to the cart, use fake
information or whatever.
4.When you get to the shopping cart, try clicking on the three buttons under the
cart.

Actual Results:  It contacts the webserver and stays on the same page.

Expected Results:  Should either clear the cart, go to another page to add
another bond to the cart, or go to a page to buy the bonds in your cart,
depending on what button is pressed.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

When you click on those buttons, do any new errors appear in the JS console?

Comment 2

[Wesha]

I beleive the fix for bug 162648 will fix this too.

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

Reporter, can you still reproduce this bug with a newer nightly build?

Comment 4

[Tim Lyon]

Yes I can still reproduce this in the August 26th nightly build for win32.

Comment 5

[Tim Lyon]

Can't SOMEONE confirm this?  All you need to do is use some fake info when
adding a bond to the cart, then follow my instructions in the original report. 
If for some odd reason you are paranoid about your SSN or something, all the
site seems to do is verify that the zip code is a real one that matches the
state, and doesn't check anything else.  You can use any random number for your
SSN.  Unless, that is, you actually want to buy a savings bond.

Comment 6

[Vladimir Ermakov]

Confirming build 2002-08-27-08-trunk on Linux

Comment 7

[Vladimir Ermakov]

*** Bug 166435 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Vladimir Ermakov]

*** Bug 163919 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Alexandru Savulov]

looks like this is the name/value problem for image elements. some servers have
a problem when we submit name/value for the submitting image. should be
evangelism i think.

Comment 10

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Bulk moving P1-P5 un-milestoned bugs to future. 

Comment 11

[Will Nuzum]

If it helps, removing the 'value' attribute from the image buttons fixes the 
problem.  We'll be making that change to the servlet soon.  Thanks for your 
help.

-Will

Comment 12

[Alexandru Savulov]

got fixed one way or another (see bug 138957 and comment 11). marking WFM