270428 - XMLHttpRequest resends address transaction instead of transaction spec'd

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Brook Monroe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Loading page with CGI transaction http://192.168.1.39:8081/GetHTML?
FilePath=c:\Test\xmlhttp.html in order to skip security error by implicit cross-
domain load from file:/// vs. localhost.  Set up XMLHttpRequest object to use 
TestTrans transaction instead of GetHTML [ URL becomes 
http://192.168.1.39:8081/TestTrans?form0.field1=25&etc... ]  but when sent the 
server sees GetHTML exercised again, not TestTrans.  All the aggregated form 
data is sent along, but it appears that the XMLHttpRequest object substitutes 
the original transaction in the URL for the one I need to send.

Ran the exact same page/activity in IE (using ActiveXObject
("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")) and got the expected results--no substitution of CGI 
transaction specifier.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load a page via CGI transaction
2. Use XMLHttpRequest to send a transaction request back to the URL, but use a 
different CGI transaction instead of the original transaction 

Actual Results:  
Moz/Firefox sent the original transaction with new URL data

Expected Results:  
Sent the requested transaction with the new URL data

The web server is our code, but since I'm echoing the URL before sending the 
GET and seeing what I expect to see, I'm confident that we're not seeing the 
wrong code called in the server.  (It's been in the field for about 8 years now 
[in major corporate installations], and we don't see this occur anywhere 
else.)  This is a normal priority bug, since it doesn't break anything in our 
world right now, but it does keep me from certifying that some major airline 
web-checkin sites are completely Firefox/Netscape compatible.

Comment 1

[Bernard Alleysson]

no checkin, it can't be fixed, is it INVALID or WORKSFORME ?

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

I assume this is INVALID? If not please reopen.