Open Bug 190168 Opened 22 years ago Updated 1 year ago

javascript reload() of page in reponse to POST request sends GET request instead of POST.

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Navigation
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect

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People

(Reporter: john, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030122

Using javascript:window.document.reload() in a page generated by a PUT request
sends a GET request instead of the PUT request.  In older versions (NS7, 1.3a,
1.0) BOTH a GET and a PUT request are sent.


Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030122
**********************
APACHE ACCESS.LOG FILE 
**********************
(original request)
192.168.3.1 - - [22/Jan/2003:13:04:28 -0800] "POST
/TOUR00/REPORTS/Booking_Info.taf?BRN=348056&_function=UpdateBooking&_UserReference=934053CF09A89EE73E2F06C9
HTTP/1.1" 200 5604

(reload request)
192.168.3.1 - - [22/Jan/2003:13:04:36 -0800] "GET
/TOUR00/REPORTS/Booking_Info.taf?BRN=348056&_function=UpdateBooking&_UserReference=934053CF09A89EE73E2F06C9
HTTP/1.1" 200 18934



Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

**********************
APACHE ACCESS.LOG FILE 
**********************

(Original request)
192.168.3.1 - - [22/Jan/2003:12:17:31 -0800] "POST
/tour00/reports/booking_info.taf?BRN=348056&_function=UpdateBooking&_UserReference=72632817AA3E994A3E2EF2F3
HTTP/1.1" 200 2156

(From the javascript reload() call)
192.168.3.1 - - [22/Jan/2003:12:17:53 -0800] "POST
/tour00/reports/booking_info.taf?BRN=348056&_function=UpdateBooking&_UserReference=72632817AA3E994A3E2EF2F3
HTTP/1.1" 200 18919
192.168.3.1 - - [22/Jan/2003:12:17:53 -0800] "GET
/tour00/reports/booking_info.taf?BRN=348056&_function=UpdateBooking&_UserReference=72632817AA3E994A3E2EF2F3
HTTP/1.1" 200 18919


**************
Page Contents:
**************
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8"> 
<link REL="StyleSheet" HREF="CSS/BookingInfo.CSS" TYPE="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<div CLASS="DatabaseErrorsText">
There were database problems during the update.  Odds are that 
<a HREF="" onClick="javascript:window.location.reload();">trying again</a> will
solve
the problem.  You may <a HREF="" onClick="javascript:window.location.reload();">
try again by clicking here</a> or by clicking on the Refresh or Reload button of
your
browser.
</div>
</body>
</html>


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a CGI form that uses the POST method.
2. Put a link on the results page of that form that contains:
onClick="javascript:window.document.reload();"
3.  Use the browser to submit the page.
4.  Click on the link to reload the page.
5.  Look at the logs.

Actual Results:  
The reload sent both a POST and a GET request to the Web server.

Expected Results:  
Only sent a POST request.

I have reproduced this on Netscape 7.0 (Win2K), Mozilla 1.3a build 2002121215
(Win2K), and Mozilla 1.0 (Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1).
Phoenix 0.5 sends two GET requests.
john, this looks like a session history thing....
Yeah, sounds like session history--CC'ing people who might have seen this
before.  bug 180598 might be related ... perhaps that is the same issue, and the
anchors are creating a new session history entry (which is GET).  Bug 167458
also sounds a suspicious.
This is session history problem.
Assignee: form-submission → radha
Component: Form Submission → History: Session
correcting summary (PUT -> POST)
Summary: javascript reload() of page in reponse to PUT request sends GET request instead of PUT. → javascript reload() of page in reponse to POST request sends GET request instead of POST.
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OK, I can reproduce the bug using Firefox 1.5b1.  Testcase here:
http://friedfish.homeip.net/test/bugs/190168/test.html

The bug is that we behave differently than IE when the user clicks on an anchor
tag that has an empty href attribute and a onclick handler that triggers a page
reload.
URL: http://friedfish.homeip.net/test/bugs...
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Component: History: Session → Document Navigation
QA Contact: vladimire → docshell
Assignee: radha → nobody
Severity: normal → S3
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