320792 - Infinite loop during js reload of frameset(frame src ignored)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Andrew Owseiko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

It looks like src attribute of frame tag is ignored during programmatical reload of page containing that frameset. Reload button causes same effect, but Go button works ok.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open index.html from testcase
2.Go to "Next content" page by link
3.Go to "page" link, which internally calls top.window.location.reload(true);
4.Enjoy infinite loop

Actual Results:  
Infinite loop caused by continious opening of reload.html, loading of work.html is expected during reloading of index.html(src attribute of frame tag)

Expected Results:  
Reloading of index.html and opening of nav.html and work.html in corresponding frames.

My web application(servlets, jsp) dynamically generates content for nav(.html) and work(.html) depending on user logged in. reload.html technique is used to actualize frames during login logoff actions. This works for IE 6, Opera 7.xx. Also worked for Firefox 1.0 - 1.0.x not sure about last ver. it worked on.

Uncommenting alert("Index (re)loaded"); in index.html shows that reload of index occures, but frame content is from previous page, not from value in src attribute

Comment 1

[Andrew Owseiko]

Attachment: Infinite reload testcase

Comment 2

[Elmar Ludwig]

Looking at e.g. bug 181407 this seems to be intentional(?), at least for manual reloads.

Moving to Core: Session History for further consideration.

Comment 3

[MXT]

Attachment: A demo for this bug

Comment 4

[MXT]

I have the same issue, like these (i think):
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402565
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243164

I have prepared a demo for this bug here:
http://www.custommania.com/firefoxBug-iframeReloadLoop/ 

(Also I have attached the files in this post)

Comment 5

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

per the attached TC (put it temporarily on my server here: http://hallvord.com/temp/moz/bug/firefoxBug-iframeReloadLoop/ ) this works fine now. (Would be nice to have proper and automated tests for it though..)