242505 - the form cannot submit

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Password Manager, defect)

Description

[Hungerburg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040428 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040428 Firefox/0.8.0+

there are two forms on this page; from looking at the source, its alright.
though with firefox, unlike mozilla, one cannot login there.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. load url
2. type in usrname and password (make up some)
3. click submit or hit enter

Actual Results:  
nothing (not even page reloads)

Expected Results:  
the form should submit

there is also no script on the page that traps submit, and returns false.

Comment 1

[logan]

WFM

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040504
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040502 Firefox/0.8.0+

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

-> password manager.  Similar bugs have been caused by the password manager in
the past.  Bryner fixed a few of them (bug 221654, bug 231042) but this isn't
the first report of a similar bug I've seen since Bryner made those fixes.

Comment 3

[firemotion+mozilla]

I can't see the described behaviour - WFM.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040505
Firefox/0.8.0+
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040505

Comment 4

[Hungerburg]

The last post made me curious; Got into .firefox directory, and deleted the
https://www.dyndns.org entry from signons.txt; voilà, the next time firefox
loads the account login page, when typing the first char of the username, the
(ex tab-, now cursor) completion pops up with the whole word of it: where is it
saved, if not in signons.txt?

after then filling in the password, which was not saved, and submitting the
form, password manager pops up, asking its usual question, and the account page
loads aftwerwards. may there be a conflict between two form fillers?

Comment 5

[Hungerburg]

after that, signons.txt was completely reordered. the dyndns account had a
different crypto text than before, for the same clear text though. piping the
old and new signons text through sort, before diff, output only four lines: two
were the new values for dyndns, the other two were the old values.

now, when I put the new values in the old file, and saved it over "signons.txt",
opening the account login page, the form was prefilled! and did submit too.

Comment 6

[Duncan Lilly]

I don't know what causes the bug to go manifest but I have found a workaround:  make sure the action="xxx" section includes the entire URL for the script.  For example:
   action="show.cgi"
won't work,  but
   action="http://www.somehost.org/show.cgi"]
will.

Now whether that changes how the signons stuff sees the URL or not I don't know,  but it might help someone figure out what is going wrong.

Comment 7

[Nilson Cain]

WFM 
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040628 Firefox/0.8.0+

Comment 8

[Gabriel Sjoberg]

I can confirm that the problem file is signons.txt.  After deleting my old entry
for http://drupal.org, I can once again sign into that site.

Comment 9

[shawmt]

(In reply to comment #8)
> I can confirm that the problem file is signons.txt.  After deleting my old entry
> for http://drupal.org, I can once again sign into that site.

Using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707
Firefox/0.9.2 on Win NT Pro - SP 4

I am having the same problem with http://webmail.earthlink.net.  However,
deleting entries in signons.txt did not eliminate the problem.  When submitting
the form with the proper credentials, the sign-on page simply reloads.  It does
not take the user into their e-mail.

Comment 10

[Pallav Nawani]

I am having same trouble with rediffmail http://in.rediff.com/index.html
The email form submission does not work, I cannot log in to access my email.
This problem is seen from browsers 0.8 - onwards. Mozilla firebird 0.7 does not
seem to have this problem.

Other website where I am facing this problem:
http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/wwwforum.cgi?formular
This is the winboard forum. I am unable to post here.

In both the cases, nothing happens when the submit button is clicked.

Supposing there is a problem with the signons.txt file, if many old versions of
firefox have been installed, (I have had Phoenix 0.6 to Firefox 0.9.3) this is
_still_ a bug.

I have two versions installed right now.

Older version Firebird 0.7 was copied into a folder, since it was not an
installer version. Then I installed firefox 0.8. It didnot automatically pick up
my sign ins, so I manually copied my signons.txt to the application data folder
of firefox. Most other logins work, but not these two.

OS: Win98

FireBird 0.7 (works)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7


Firefox  0.9.3 (dosen't work)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.8

Comment 11

[Hodor!]

Works for me with FireFox 1.0 on Windows 2000

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Comment 12

[Ben Basson]

Resolving as WORKSFORME.