276241 - "Save as" operation saved the new content instead of the displayed one

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Tomas Telensky]

My mozilla's uptime is 8 days. I had some 7 days old content of that URL loaded
in one tab. Then I loaded the new content of that URL in another tab. Then I
switched  to the tab with old content and saved it into file ("Save as", "Html
only"). 
It saved the new content! I tried it several times, in "offline" mode, I even
tried to use tcpdump to see whether mozilla is connecting the server. It was not.
It seems that it used the new document from the cache.

There was NO WAY how to save that old content. Very pitty.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Then I loaded the new content of that URL in another tab.
So you updated your cache for that document (specific URL).
> It seems that it used the new document from the cache.
Of course if the URL is the same.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

"save as" does read from cache (unless you do "web page, complete"), and the
cache entry was replaced by the new data.  We have existing bugs on this.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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