19937 - Reload button behaves differently navigating FTP sites

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[scalkins]

Steps to reproduce:
1) *Navigate the tree* to the seamonkey directory under Sweetlou, starting at
the top level of ftp://sweetlou/  (Do not go directly to the URL in the URL
field above)
2)Hit the Reload button

Expected results: The Seamonkey page is refreshed at:
ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/
Actual results: You are kicked back to the top level of ftp://sweetlou

Comment 1

[scalkins]

Found on Build 1999-11-23-08 M12 Linux and Mac

Comment 2

[leger]

Setting qa contact/component.

Comment 3

[troy]

*** Bug 20451 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[scalkins]

Also saw this on win build 1999-12-02-11 M12

Comment 5

[Warren Harris]

Mass move of all bugs without target milestones to M13.

Comment 6

[leger]

Bulk move of all Networking-Core (to be deleted component) bugs to new
Networking component.

Comment 7

[Judson Valeski]

this is a problem with our embedded dir listing document. cc'ing waterson and
don.

Comment 8

[Judson Valeski]

Over to don.

Comment 9

[don]

Move to M16 for now ...

Comment 10

[Peter "jag" Annema]

Bug 20451 is not a dup of this bug, but of bug 19337.

I have noticed something similar with the back and forward arrow, both with
file:// and ftp:// urls.

Expected behaviour:
Directories are treated like webpages. They show up in your history and you can
navigate between them using back and forward arrows after initial browsing

Actual behaviour:
They get ignored or overwritten.

To reproduce:
- Launch mozilla.
- Go to some directory (file:/// for example)
- Go down a directory level by clicking on the directory's name
! Try to press the back arrow to go up a level :-)
- Enter your favorite website (or a completely different directory) in the
location bar
- Now go to file:/// again by typing it in the location bar
- Go down a directory level again
! Press the navigate back button and notice you go to your favorite website
(expected: back up a level)
- Press the navigate forward button, you will be in the previous directory
- Navigate towards a picture file and view it
! Navigate back, you will be at your favorite website (Expected: the directory
containing the picture)
! Navigate forward, and you'll see the picture again (Expected: the directory
containing the picture)

Note: when doing the last few steps with text files (.txt, .java) instead of
pictures, the last step will take you to the directory containing the text file
(but you can't take one more step forward to view the text file again).

To summarize: browsing directories, be it local or on an ftp site, you get some
pretty weird behaviour with the back and forward buttons.
The underlying problem seems to me that browsing through directories by clicking
on them doesn't add them to your browsing history, unless you click a text file,
apparantly.

I see this behaviour with both Win95 moz-build 2000040908 and Linux moz-build
2000040909.

Comment 11

[don]

Bill, is there a bug here?

Comment 12

[Bill Law]

More than one, probably.  I'm going to send it to Radha, though.  Seems like 
more of a session history kind of thing.

Comment 13

[don]

Move to M20 target milestone.

Comment 14

[don]

Oops.  Should be M21.

Comment 15

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

I could not reproduce any of the methods described here anymore. marking works 
forme.

Comment 16

[Tom Everingham]

verified wfm