285232 - refresh/reload of web site does not chnage graphics or downloaded files

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 80922

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[bill.moz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

I have a personal web page that I use when loggin onto the web. One picture on
the web is from
http://radblast.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/radar/WUNIDS?station=HGX19 and when I
log in I need to refresh the page to get the latest picture. This Sunday 3/6 I
uploaded a movie file to the pickmovie.htm link listed in the URL and when I
attempted to view it the file that was displayed and played was the old one. I
stopped Firefox and at one point logged out and back on and still could not view
the new file. One I cleared the cache I finally was able to download and view
the new file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. View mpg file
2. upload new file
3. attempt download of new file

Actual Results:  
The old file is viewed.

Expected Results:  
The new file should be viewed.

Comment 1

[Darin Fisher]

This does not sound like anything Firefox specific.  Over to core product...

Were you just clicking a regular link to download the file?

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

Check your cache settings. Also: To force a reload, use ctrl+reload

Comment 3

[Darin Fisher]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Check your cache settings. Also: To force a reload, use ctrl+reload

correction, make that: shift+reload

Comment 4

[bill.moz]

Yes, when I download the file, typically called Movie1.mpg, I click on the
following link http://home.houston.rr.com/billhopp/Movie1.mpg to see the movie
file. On Sunday I uploaded a new file and clicked on the link and the player
displayed last week's file. I refreshed, tried logging out and back in and
finally wnet to the tools area and cleared the cache to get the new file to be
displayed.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This has come up in the past -- some people argue that "save link as" should
always bypass cache.  I don't think there was agreement on the issue, though...
 In any case, that's a Firefox UI issue, not a core one; the relevant code is UI
code.

Comment 6

[neil]

I don't know if this is related, nor what is being used to serve the Guestmap
feature at Bravenet, but when a visitor posts a pin on the map (a gif) it
disappears after autoreload:
http://pub15.bravenet.com/guestmap/show.php?usernum=1241775608
This is now a read-only example, sorry, but a tester could be created for free.
I am using Win98SE, and have submitted feedback to Bravenet.

Comment 7

[Robin Monks]

Seems to be a dupe of bug 80922.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80922 ***