337727 - second request when <element style="background-image: url()">

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 106912

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[java]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

firefox makes a second request on the current site when an element has the following css attribute <element style="background-image: url()">. the url for background-image must be blank, then a second request is started without any notification. for example when you current site is http://www.fo.bar/servlet/output?username=rider then firefox creates an request (method get) exactly to this site.

the first response of the server is hidden. only the second response is shown.

the two request have the exactly same header.

i reproduced with firefox 1.5.0.0 - 1.5.0.3 windows XP  + german language

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.make a htmlsite where an element has the blank css attribute <element style="background-image: url()">
2.install webserver
3.install packet sniffer
4.copy htmlsite to webserver
5.view htmlsite from webserver
6.view transfer via packet sniffer

Actual Results:  
you could see the second request to the requested site.
the site is request two times, without any notification or action from the user

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106912 ***