213574 - Ask anytime to POST a query navigating through results (abstracts) in Pubmed

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michele Della Guardia]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030715 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030715 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Just on Windows build it is necessary to click OK to post anytime the query data
to go back from the abstract window to the results list.
The same release works fine on Linux.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed
2. enter a keywork (ex : "thyroiditis") then click on a result to read abstract
3. when opened an abstract click the back button.

Actual Results:  
A window asks me to post again the query data or abort it

Expected Results:  
I expect Firebird to go back to results windows without ask anything, as it does
on Linux.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

WFM 20030721 PC/WinXP

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

WFM 20030721 PC/Win2000.
Try a current nightly with a fresh profile.

Comment 3

[Brant Gurganus]

INVALID.  The page is in certain, somewhat hard to reproduce, cases actually
doing a POST.  For that reason, the message you get when you press BACK is correct.

The reason it is there is that POSTs are typically used when some change is made
to a database or file.  For example, queries are generally GETs since they don't
change data and they can be bookmarked, but shopping sites use POSTs so that if
you press BACK, you don't resubmit an order or something like that.  It is a
protection for you.  The site should probably be using GETs so you might contact
their Webmaster, but this is not a bug in Mozilla-based browsers.