180598 - link within a page created by a POST, then RELOAD, POST data not resubmitted

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Nathan Kinkade]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021104 Phoenix/0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021104 Phoenix/0.4

You are viewing a page that was created by a POST method.  You select a link
that references an anchor tag farther down in the same document.  You then
select to RELOAD the document.  The POST data is not resubmitted, even though
you are still viewing the same document.  As a result, any data that was
dependent on the POSTed data is gone, or wrong.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Submit an HTML form using POST method.
2.  When viewing the resulting doc, select a link that moves within same doc.
3.  RELOAD the page, posted data is not resubmitted, nor are you presented with
a dialog asking if you would like to resubmit.

Actual Results:  
Since the data was not reposted, or I was not given the option to repost the
data, anything on the current document was dependent on the posted data is
either gone, or wrong.

Expected Results:  
(Phoenix) Since I was still viewing the same document, generated by the same
POST data, the browser should have asked if I would like to repost the form data.

Comment 1

[David P James]

I love this bug report! It's so neat... yes, anyway, I'm seeing this too.
However, it is a Mozilla issue as I'm getting it with Moz as well.

Comment 2

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

The problem being that the original POST went to http://blah.com/page, and then
you click on http://blah.com/page#anchor, and *then* try to reload. 
Guess-at-a-glance: the new session history entry with #anchor does not contain
the original POST data and we just reload using GET.

Comment 3

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

Attachment: patch to docshell

Save postdata into the session history entry created for a anchor traversal, so
that postdata will be properly reposted on history operations.

Comment 4

[Adam Lock]

Comment on attachment 117925 [details] [diff] [review]
patch to docshell

r=adamlock

Comment 5

[Alec Flett]

Comment on attachment 117925 [details] [diff] [review]
patch to docshell

I'm going to rename mOSHE and mLSHE at some point.. these names are SO
confusing.. :)

sr=alecf

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The patch was checked in on 2003-03-27.  This bug has been fixed since then.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

We can almost test this with the test for bug 413310, except that we'd get the re-POST dialog in the success case, and then be stuck.  :(