176477 - Data entered in XHTML forms are not saved when "back" button is pushed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 125166

(Core :: XML, defect)

Description

[aldo cortesi]

- Go to an XHTML form (i.e. a form with content type "text/xml")
- Enter some data.
- Now submit the form.
- Press the back button - the data you entered no longer appears in the form in
question. 
- Change the content type to "text/html"
- Repeat the procedure - the data entered is now persistent. 

Unfortunately this small ease-of-use flaw is near fatal 
for a web-based app we're creating for a client...

Tested with build 2002102209 and Mozilla 1.1 20020913

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

jkeiser, as long as you're rewriting this stuff, wanna make this work too?  ;)

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

over to jkeiser... a live testcase would be very helpful here, if possible

Comment 3

[Daniel B.]

I'm seeing this with text/html -- with Mozilla's Bugzilla page:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Browser

Test case:
- request http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Browser
- in the returned form, do not selected a component in the "Component" list box,
  but enter some text in the text boxes or text areas
- click on the Submit button
- when you get the error page, invoke the "Back" command
- see that the text fields you typed into are blank again
(It works with IE 6.0.  I don't have Netscape 4.x here to confirm that it works
with Netscape 4.x.)

Comment 4

[Daniel B.]

Related to bug 163477.

Comment 5

[Daniel B.]

Oh wait--after I submitted that "Related to..." comment, I clicked "Back" an
the Additional Comments field was not cleared.

Could it depend on whether the response to submitting a form is a page without
a form (when I got the "must select a component" error page) vs. a page with
a form (when I got a form for the next bug in some list)?

Comment 6

[Nowhere man]

This should be a duplicate of bug 202640

Comment 7

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

*** Bug 202640 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[:deanis74]

Related to bug 125166?

Comment 9

[Nowhere man]

More than related, it is a duplicate of 125166

Comment 10

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 221332 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 125166 ***