374444 - refresh meta stopped working

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Anton Akola]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2

Not sure this started with version 2.0.0.2, happens only on some machines, but is always reproducible.

refresh meta stopped to work. For instance <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=targetPage.html"> does not have any result.

For instance, going to http://microsoft.com/vista doesn't work at first. If you hit the refresh button, then, it works and continue to do so on subsequent visits.

I don't know how to narrow the field of search but I'm willing to help.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

The link you mention uses HTTP redirects rather than meta redirects to move you to the real page of http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/default.mspx

So is this bug about meta refreshes or http redirects?

Comment 2

[Anton Akola]

(In reply to comment #1)
> The link you mention uses HTTP redirects rather than meta redirects 

Rather a poor choice of test case, I must admit. I should have investigated further. Obviously a web farm cascading many tricks to manage its traffic. I was stuck there several times on the barest page containing only a very quick meta refresh of its own URL.

Now for a better test case:
http://acmenta.net/mozilla/refreshTest.html

This page should take you to 
http://acmenta.net/mozilla/refreshTarget.html

But it doesn't work for me.

HTH

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

works for me in recent bonecho 2.0.0.3 on winxp/linux. You don't have an extension or pref that is blocking the refresh are you?

Comment 4

[Anton Akola]

(In reply to comment #3)

> You don't have an extension or pref that is blocking 
> the refresh are you?

That's the first thing I thought of. But why would several computer have the same extension with this same setting enabled pretty much at the same time? Can't be.

I should have checked anyway, as you are right: they had the Web Developer add on with Disable Meta Redirect enabled. As simple as that.

Just the old me busy making a fool of itself... Duh...

Thanks for everybody help and sorry for the time lost.

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

works for me would have been a better resolution but invalid works for me too. :-) If this is the worst misteak you make, then you are doing fine. thanks for the bug report.