49172 - Browser fails to respond correctly to a 205 (reset) status.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Tim Bannister]

http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~isoma/spare/205test is a simple form configured to
POST to http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~isoma/spare/cgi/205status

http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~isoma/spare/cgi/205status is a very basic CGI
consisting of:
#!/bin/bash

echo Status: 205 Reset form
echo Content-type: application/octet-stream
echo

...on this server, this results in the following response headers:
HTTP/1.1 205 Reset form
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:14:17 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) PHP/4.0.0
Content-Location: 205status.cgi
TCN: choice
Vary: negotiate
X-Powered-by: Steam
Cache-Control: max-age=86400
Expires: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 14:14:17 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/octet-stream


According to RFC 2616, an HTTP/1.1 conforming user agent should reset the
content of the form to the freshly-loaded state on receipt of a 205 status code.

Although there is no entity in the response from
http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~isoma/spare/cgi/205status Mozilla pops up a
download select dialogue box, presumably because of the Content-type: header. 
The form is not reset.

Comment 1

[Gagan]

->ruslan

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

setting bug status to New

Comment 3

[Gagan]

pulling in ruslan's necko bugs ->darin

Comment 4

[Gagan]

this will need some cleaning out of the elements from the layout/dom side as 
well. 

Comment 5

[benc]

mass move, v2.
qa to me.

Comment 6

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

*** Bug 119990 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Darin Fisher]

-> suresh

there is some code in uriloader/base/something that handles 204.

Comment 8

[Suresh]

hmm...using NS4.8 and IE, this testcase brings up the dialog something like "The
document contains no data". Is this the correct behaviour or something got
changed in the testcase?

Comment 9

[Darin Fisher]

suresh: 205 is a HTTP/1.1 response code, so NS4x would not understand it.  also,
IE does not seem to honor it either.  you might want to see if opera or
konqueror/safari get it right.

Comment 10

[Suresh]

Opera 7.02 does not handle 205 correctly either. It does not reset the form (i.e
I think it behaves like 204) and it doesn't bring up any downlaod dialog (as
mozilla does) or "document contains no data" (like IE does).

Using Safari 1.0, clicking on a submit brings up an empty page (no other dialogs
though).

Comment 11

[Suresh]

Attachment: patch

This patch makes 205 response to behave like 204 response.

Comment 12

[Darin Fisher]

Comment on attachment 116859 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

sr=darin

yeah, we should at least get this in and then worry about full compliance.  thx
suresh!

Comment 13

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

Comment on attachment 116859 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

drop the extra space between ')' and "or"

+  // - In the case of a 204 (No Content)  or

Comment 14

[Suresh]

this is fixed in trunk.

file a new bug 198309 to address the actual content reset issue.