277654 - application/x-httpd-php type refusing to refresh

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Newton]

Firefox will not try to see if the content of an URL has changed after it gets a
file of type application/x-httpd-php. This type came from a badly configured web
server (the type was defined, but the php engine was disabled). After removing
the php file and replacing it with a normal .html, the URL would result in the
index.html, instead of the index.php. This was verified with elinks.

But firefox would bring up the Save As dialog for the index.php. The only way to
clear it was to clear the cache.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

The problem is this : Firefox asks the server if the document changed and apache
reports that the document is still the old one (nothing changed(.

-< invalid

Comment 2

[Chris Newton]

I must disagree. When I revist the URL with firefox, the index.php that it had
gotten before no longer exists on the apache server. I manualy removed it. Like
I said, elinks got the index.html correctly. So it cant be that the document
hasnt changed. It looks like firefox never looks again for this type of file
(for whatever reason). You can quit and restart firefox and it will behave the
same. The only way I've seen to fix it is clear the cache.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Firefox just asks the server if the document has changed. The usual Apache bug
is that it still reports that nothing changed and Firefox will use the cached
document. This is a bug in Apache and not Mozilla/Firefox.

-> invalid

You can reopen this bug if you are sure that the serer reports that the file
changed and if you attach a http log (before and after)
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/http-debugging.html