302190 - XHTML forms are not cached in the same way that HTML forms are.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Joseph Tate]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050618 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050618 Firefox/1.0.4

An XML based form, when filled, does not cache the values on a refresh (Ctl-R
not Ctl-Shift-R) or on a back operation from another page as an HTML form will.
 It appears that the Content-Types text/xml and application/xhtml+xml do not go
down the form value caching path that text/html forms do.  As XHTMl becomes more
and more prevalent this will cause more and more problems.

I should note that konqueror caches xhtml form data as one would expect.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy the soon to be attached index.xhtml file to your DocumentRoot
2. Load index.xhtml into a browser
3. Add some data to either of the two text input fields
4. Hit the refresh button

Actual Results:  
The form data was cleared.

Expected Results:  
The form data should have remained intact.

Ctl-Shift-R should be used to "reset" a form.

I plan on reproducing with Firefox 1.0.6 as soon as I am able.  I will provide
results here.

Comment 1

[Joseph Tate]

Attachment: Simple XHTML form

Here is the promised xhtml form.

Comment 2

[Joseph Tate]

This problem still occurs in version 1.0.6.

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050726 Firefox/1.0+
ID:2005072612

Works for me. The code used in 1.0.x is almost 16 months old; you need to be
able to reproduce this in the latest builds for it to be valid.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Comment 4

[Joseph Tate]

The bug also occurs in Mozilla 1.7.

You are correct Adam.  This bug does not occur in Deer Park.  Any chance for a
back port?

Comment 5

[Adam Guthrie]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Any chance for a back port?

Nope. Only security fixes are checked into the aviary branch.