321291 - View source frequently fails to work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 307089

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect)

Description

[ken spencer]

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

View source needs to take its source cdoe from the cache. 

Currently it seems to fail if: 

If sorce is programatically generated and viewable only once, there appears to be no way to view that source. (this forces me to use IE when viewing source while developing this kind of site)

If the interenet connection is interupted between downloading a page and viewing its source a page can't be found error happens. 

Both situations would be corrected if the source viewed was taken from the local machine, not the server. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Josh Birnbaum]

View Source does take its content from the cache.  But the page may be marked as non-cachable, or expired, or the cache evicts the page due to subsequent activity--in which case View Source will need to re-retrieve the page.

This bug is probably a dupe of bug 166786, though that's a Mozilla Suite bug.  See also bug 288462

Comment 2

[ken spencer]

I don't think this conditions are happening. 

Here is a quick example that illustrates the issue: 

http://www.smallboxsoftware.net/bug.php

This does however work in explorer. 

Comment 3

[Uri Bernstein]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Here is a quick example that illustrates the issue: 
> 
> http://www.smallboxsoftware.net/bug.php

This example works for me (I can view the source).
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 ID:2005111116

Comment 4

[ken spencer]

Just to be clear. 

When I view the source, I get the source of the first page instead of the second. 

Comment 5

[Peter Leonard]

There are a slew of bug reports relating to this - Bug 251231 is one of them.

Comment 6

[Peter Leonard]

Bugs I've found to date relating to this:
Bug 251231
Bug 306916
Bug 307089
Bug 321291
Bug 340120

I'll bet there are more - this was simply a search in Bugzilla for "view source". 

Comment 7

[Stuart Roe]

You can get the correct source by selecting the whole page (CTRL-A), right click and "view selection source".