193110 - POST requests are resubmitted on Save Page, without warning.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 115174

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Luke Ross]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211

Attempting to save pages that are the result of POST requests can sometimes
result in the form being resubmitted, without warning.  This occurs with the
disk cache turned on.  In an e-commerce site, this could result in, say,
reordering or similar problems.

This problem occurs in 1.3b but not 1.2.1 on Linux.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to URL
2.  Press "Do post"
3.  Go to File->Save As and save page
4.  Compare timestamps between browser window and saved version.

Actual Results:  
The timestamps differ, suggesting the page was resubmitted to the server.  No
warning is issued.

Expected Results:  
Either:
1. Save the page from the cache
2. Warn that the form must be reposted, with OK/Cancal options.

Apologies for not finding this the correct category, but I didn't know if it was
a file: problem or a DOM problem.

This issue is a major problem - e-commerce sites often recommend you save the
page confirming order number etc, but this bug could cause multiple orders to be
placed without the user being aware.

Comment 1

[Jesiah S]

I see it too.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030209
I did notice that if you save as page as complete it will not re POST the page.

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115174 ***