296709 - evolution-win32.sourceforge.net - Redirect loses POST data

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Justin Haygood]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

I maintain a small wiki which uses various methods to remain search enginge
friendly, including a friendly URL.

However, it appears as if the hosting server, Sourceforge, reports HTTP headers
which cause Mozilla to drop the POST of data. Specifically, its "HTTP/1.x 302
Found". Mozilla issues a GET request to the URL instead of a POST request with
the data.

Attached is the session log for Live HTTP Headers


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Post data to a form via POST
2. Server reports HTTP/1.x 302 Found
3. Mozilla reissues request with GET header, data is lost.

Actual Results:  
Wiki software reports strange "bug", i.e., not being to able read any of the
data "posted" to it since Mozilla isn't posting it directly. All posted data is
lost.

Expected Results:  
1. Post data to a form via POST
2. Server reports HTTP/1.x 302 Found
3. Mozilla reissues correct request with POST header and all data

Comment 1

[Justin Haygood]

Attachment: HTTP headers showing what it is

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Ok, this is TE. We don't follow the RfC here, because Mozilla/Firefox would
break with too many sites when doing this. The site should probably use the 307
status code, then Mozilla/Firefox does "the right thing" :). Now is this a
*.sourgeforge.net only problem or a general WikiWare problem?

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

btw: The 301/302 issue was wontfixed in Bug 190630

Comment 4

[Justin Haygood]

It's a general SourceForge.net problem I believe.

Comment 5

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

BTW: I just created a article and it worked fine, to me it seems the redirect
just happens so you get redirected to the created article. Do i need to use a
specific way to reproduce?

Comment 6

[Justin Haygood]

(In reply to comment #5)
> BTW: I just created a article and it worked fine, to me it seems the redirect
> just happens so you get redirected to the created article. Do i need to use a
> specific way to reproduce?

I used a hack to get it to work on the server side, so it won't be 
reproduceable using that test script.

Comment 7

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Did Sourceforge.net provide this Wiki or did you manually install it?

Comment 8

[Justin Haygood]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Did Sourceforge.net provide this Wiki or did you manually install it?

Manually created and later installed it.

Comment 9

[Bernhard]

Isn't this a duplicate of bug 190630?

Comment 10

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

As far as I can tell, this is no longer a problem for the given site because it has moved to

http://www.go-evolution.org/Main_Page

I'm going to mark this FIXED; new bugs should be filed as applicable for other SF properties that exhibit the problem.