197421 - View Source not available in a specific context with missing plugin

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 196563

(Core Graveyard :: View Source, defect)

Description

[Orest]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

When viewing a specific page that requires a plugin, AND the plugin isn't
available, Mozilla displays a placeholder for the plugin isntructing "Click here
to get the plugin."  The problem is that, in this specific context, the View
Source command is unavailable.  This doesn't happen on other pages where the
plugin is also required.  This occurs only on the one example found so far.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the given URL.  Default view doesn't display plugin.  Select View->Page
Source (Ctl-U) to view source.  View Source works correctly.
2. Click any of the links on the page.  The same page reloads with a plugin
placeholder.  In my case, the plugin isn't available and the placeholder
instructs me to click to install the plugin.
3. Now with the plugin placeholder, View->Page Source isn't available.  The
keyboard shortcut (Ctl-U) doesn't work.  Also, the View Source command when
right-clicking on the page is greyed out.
Actual Results:  
Nothing.  View Source is disabled in this context.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have displayed source.

View Source was available for this page in at least one prior version of
Mozilla, possibly 1.2.  This bug seems to have arisen in version 1.3.

Comment 1

[Orest]

Attachment: Source HTML for the problem page

This file shows the source HTML as it might appear if View Source was working.

Comment 2

[Orest]

I used Opera 6.05 to view the source of the page in question.  After saving the
source and posting it here, I tried viewing the resulting HTML page locally in
Mozilla.  It displayed as expected AND the View Source commend DID work in this
isnstance.  So, the View Source command doesn't work on the given page when it
is served directly from the URL given.

Comment 3

[Chris Casciano]

prepending "view-source:" to the url in question in the location bar should
still work as well


this is a dupe of bug 196563

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 196563 ***