238605 - META refresh happens immediately rather than after a period of time

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 121716

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Justin Cave]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316

The Washington Post main page http://www.washingtonpost.com contains the META tag

<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh"
CONTENT="900;url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/?LOAD_PAGE&reload=true"> 

It appears that this is causing Mozilla 1.7 to continuously refresh the page. 
Previous builds, and other browsers, will refresh the page every 15 minutes.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://www.washingtonpost.com
2.Note that the page continuously refreshes
3.

Actual Results:  
The page continuously refreshes

Expected Results:  
The page should refresh after 15 minutes, as specified in the META refresh tag

Comment 1

[Rene Pronk]

Works fine for me, Mozilla 1.7b WinXP.
What if you create a new Mozilla profile? Does it still happen then?

Comment 2

[Christian Weyland]

WFM, too (FF 0.8 and Moz. 1.7b)

however, they do have a javascript included (suspiciously called
"autorefresh.js") that seems to alter the meta-refresh. maybe, it is behaving
evil under certain circumstances?
--> http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/homepagessi/autorefresh.js

Comment 3

[Justin Cave]

I just double-checked that the problem still appears for me (Mozilla 1.7b 
Windows XP Professional).  Creating a new profile does not change the behavior--
 the page constantly refreshes.

It appears that Christian's comment about Javascript is correct.  If I disable 
Javascript, the refreshes cease.  Thus, it appears that the Javascript, not the 
META tag is what is causing Mozilla problems.  

Should I change the summary and affected component of this bug, or would it be 
better to close it and open a new one?

Comment 4

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121716 ***