30476 - "304 not modified" flashed in window title

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Some websites will send a "304 not modified" the second time you visit a site, 
to tell you that the version you have is still up-to-date.  Mozilla will 
sometimes flash the message in the location bar instead of just re-drawing the 
page.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Type http://www.palosverdes.com/jesse/ into the location bar
2. Press enter (page should load)
3. Click on the location bar (if necessary) and press enter again

Actual result:
Mozilla displays "304 not modified" in the title bar for part of a second and 
then redisplays the page title.

Expected result:
Mozilla would either redraw the page without updating the title bar, just 
scroll up to the top of the document without reflowing, or do nothing at all.

Comment 1

[Sebastian Späth]

In Win95 build 03/05 I can load the page as often as I want, I never get the 304 
Error message (neither in location bar nor in the browser window).
What OS are you using?

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Windows 98

I wouldn't really call 304 an error message.. it's just something that informs 
the browser that the date of the cached copy matches the date of the copy on 
the server.

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

reporter - are you still seeing this? On latest nightly, unreproducable

maybe the owner was updating his site?

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

Yes, I still see this.

A few clarifications:
- Windows 98 (sorry for not setting that earlier)
- The 304 message is flashing in the title bar, not in the location bar.

Comment 5

[Christine Begle]

updating component, owner. 

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

Marking WFM.  I see this on 2000 041800 but not 2000 0505xx.

Comment 7

[Blake Ross]

vrfy wfm in new win98 build