47916 - View Page Source Uses GET for POST Forms

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 6119

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT)
BuildID:    2000080404

When you submit a POST form, and the do "View ... Page Source" on the resulting 
page, Mozilla goes back to the network with a GET (I verified this on my server 
logs), and does not resend the parameters.  This happens both for pages that 
submit back to themselves and that submit to other pages.

The consequences of this are that the page source does not look like the 
current page.

Mozilla should do one of these things, IMO:
1. Not go to the network at all, instead using the cached version of the 
document (this is preferable, especially in POSTs where side effects can occur).
2. Do whatever refresh would do (i.e. ask the user and then resend the POST 
parameters).

Comment 1

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

Attachment: The Perl script used in this bug

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

over to Form Submission...

Comment 3

[Martin Horwath]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6119 ***

Comment 4

[Vladimir Ermakov]

Updating QA contact.

Comment 5

[Scott Brodmerkle]

Verified dupe.