361038 - View Source resubmits request data

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 307089

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect)

Description

[Richard Gundersen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Selecting 'View Page Source' resubmits the request on forms with a POST method. I noticed this because it was causing unwanted extra transactions to go through to our DB. 

Please see http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=489236 for the full description, and how I tested it. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.View Page Source on a page with a form (method=POST)
2.Click OK to the dialog
3.Request is resubmitted

Actual Results:  
Request is resubmitted, causing potentially serious problems at the back end. The source you end up seeing is the source of the new request, not the one you were interested in.

Expected Results:  
Wanted to see the source of the original request

See here for full description Please see http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=489236

Doesn't happen on the pre 2.0 versions - verified.

Using the Noia theme - doubt that matters though

Comment 1

[Paul van Schayck]

There are quite a few reports that deal with this in similar ways. See bug 307089 for the 1.5 branch. See also bug 55583.

Comment 2

[Tom Warfield]

Also happens when you do "File/Save Page As..."

Comment 3

[Mycroft Project (CC)]

See also bug 251231 (I'm marking duplicate of bug 307089 as the summary is
closer)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 307089 ***