Closed Bug 238605 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

META refresh happens immediately rather than after a period of time

Categories

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 121716

People

(Reporter: jcave, Assigned: darin.moz)

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Details

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121716 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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