313344 - after upload onStopRequest there is a delay before the uploaded RDF file can be refreshed with remote datastore refresh

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[marja]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

I upload file, and onStopRequest start code that refreshes it back. The file
always uploads but sometimes the after Refresh onEndLoad I see the old version
of the file until I close browser and start again or do something else that
causes a another Refresh.

Biesi said something about Necko returning to do some code and asked me to do a
window.setTimeout at onStopRequest for the Refresh function. I'm not sure why
but it seems to help, at least I haven't gotten any problems after I started
using that. But could also be that delays are now hiding from me.

Anyway, it is a bug and setTimeoutlooks ugly and is complicated with all the
context information going on.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install http://www.annotea.org/mozilla/ubiwin_0_3.xpi
2.configure http:// datastore as read and write datastore that accepts HTTP PUT
3.create a new topic or bookmark or update or delete already existing bookmarks
and topics (e.g. update title names as they are shown in bookmark tree view)
4. Also open bookmark view bookmarks tree view of bookmarks and topics

Actual Results:  
user is informed that upload was successful, then refresh is done
if everything went well the view bookmarks view is updated

if refresh was not successful the view has old information

Expected Results:  
always do upload onStopRequest so that refresh is done on uploaded file

I guess this will be thrown to trash also with the other bugs I have reported
but doing it anyway...

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

a minimal testcase would be nice, ideally not involving RDF...

Comment 2

[marja]

I think this might have something to do with refreshing from http cache instead of from the updated file.

With firefox 1.5 in Windows XP an updated http://...rdf file is not refreshed even after I start the browser from the beginning. However, I can see it working in Linux with all the updated info. 

When I look the file with the browser in Windows XP I also see the old version. Only after I did shift refresh in the browser window I could see the changes in my application when reading the refreshed file.

Comment 3

[marja]

Seems to work now with firefox 1.5.0.1 in Windows.

Linux version that already seemed to work might be different (firefox 1.5 gecko 20060123) as I took it from CVS but who knows.

However, I'm not sure if the error of refreshing from cache is corrected or if the http cache is just updating more so it seems it does not update from cache. In this case it will probably still occasionally fail to get my or other user's updates.

Comment 4

[Phoenix]

Reporter, is problem reproducible in modern Firefox versions?

Comment 5

[u279076]

Resolving this bug INCOMPLETE. Please reopen if it's still reproducible in the latest Firefox nightly.