437515 - Listing of FTP site contents are often stale, cache is wonky

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

Description

[matneh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

In accessing an FTP site, it seems Firefox is caching the contents.  That is fine, and I'll hit Reload when I know a file has been added.  But when I navigate up a directory and back to the original location, the cached contents are old, even though I performed a manual refresh.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to an FTP server directory "foo/"
2. On the side, add a file to that directory
3. Hit Refresh, the file should appear
4. Click on "Up to higher level directory"
5. Click on "foo/" again

Actual Results:  
The new file is not in the listing.

Expected Results:  
The new file should be in the listing

Comment 1

[Giga1220]

This could have the same reason as bug #445791

Comment 2

[Bjarne (:bjarne)]

Can confirm this. Requesting it fixed for 3.1

Comment 4

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

if anything - we will rip out ftp. enhancements belong in addons