296147 - going back to a page that has a redirect does not work

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Aaron Slunt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050530 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050530 Firefox/1.0+

Go to the url supplied above, and let it redirect you. Then, trying going back
using the back button: it doesn't go to that page, but the page you were at
before that one. Unless this was intended, you should be able to go back to that
page that sent the redirect header (and it's actually a Refresh header in this
case).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[djpohly]

I think this is the intended behavior.  IIRC, redirect is supposed to be used
for a page that has moved and should therefore not be stored in session history,
and refresh is to be used to refresh a page rather than move.

Also, if these are stored in the history, a page with refresh=0 is complicated
to back over.

Comment 2

[Aaron Slunt]

This uses refresh:5; http://google.com

A more blunt redirect would be Location:http://google.com

Not sure how you guys want to handle refresh redirection as far as this goes,
but I thought I'd file this just in case.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

We treat redirects that are set for less than 15 seconds as just replace
redirects (and hence don't store them in session history).  Ones that show the
page for over 15 seconds end up in session history...