244351 - Page shows up as text instead of html

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[beanladen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a1) Gecko/20040522
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a1) Gecko/20040522

The given page is shown as text when going to the next page and back again.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to given page
2.mark anonymous field and click on enter
3.go back

Actual Results:  
source text is displayed after going back. Even the second page is shown as text
when going forward again.

Expected Results:  
show page as html like the first time.

Mozilla is compiled with i686 gcc 2.95.3. Default encoding is set to UTF-8.

Comment 1

[beanladen]

Sorry, wrong steps to reproduce in the original report:
1....
2....
3. open new window via with Window/Navigator
4. go back in THAT window

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

How can you go back in a window you just opened?  What is there to go back to?

Please provide clear instructions to reproduce....

Comment 3

[beanladen]

Ok, just delete step 4, step 3 already shows the symptom.
There are several variants to produce this problem.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Step 3 is to open a new window, no? How does that show a problem?

I _can_ get plaintext when I just load http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/servlet without
sending POST data. That's because the server actually sends plaintext when you
do that...

Comment 5

[beanladen]

Step 3 new window shows the same contents as the first window as source. If the
server indeed sends that as plaintext, its a fault of the server, so this bug is
probably invalid.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> Step 3 new window shows the same contents as the first window as source.

Er.. the new window should be your homepage, or blank, or whatever, no?  Or do
you have it set to "last page visited"?  If you do, this is invalid or evangelism.

Comment 7

[beanladen]

It's set to 'last page visited'. Is that an expected behaviour then ? Or should
the server be prepared for such a situation ? Maybe it's just not prescribed
anywhere what to do in this case. If so, this is invalid. Maybe an evangelism
guy should decide that.

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> Is that an expected behaviour then ? 

If it's set to 'last page visited', we will try to load that page.

This server screws up when you try to just load the page in question, if you're
not coming from the preceding page.

I doubt this is worth evangelizing, though you're free to contact them about the
problem yourself, of course.