50391 - back-fwd after adding comments creates new bug report

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 55055

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

Description

[Margaret Lum]

I'm able to submit bugs by hitting "back" or "forward" after an initial
submmission and adding comments (w/o ever hitting 'commit' again).

It's confusing, but look at the steps to reproduce this problem.
Build: 2000082513   OS: NT 4.0 build1381 SP4

1. click on the URL above
2. click on the link to submit a bug
3. modify fields as if you were adding a bug of some significance, 
click 'commit'
4. hit the 'back' button
5. add text to the 'comments' section
6. hit the 'fwd' button
7. respond with 'ok' to the popup dialog wrt reposting form data
8. another bug is posted

This is probably a duplicate... :-)

Comment 1

[Margaret Lum]

Btw, you don't even need to add text to cause this bug to re-occurr.  Just 
simple 'back' and 'forward' -clicking reproduces this problem.

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

> 7. respond with 'ok' to the popup dialog wrt reposting form data

Well duh. If you don't want the form *reposted*, then don't click OK to the
"do you want to repost" dialog.

Comment 3

[Dan Nunn]

vrfy invalid

Comment 4

[Margaret Lum]

I tested this on NS 4.x and IE 5.x (ick, but people use it) on WindowsNT.

In a nutshell, Back/Forward is NOT "Submit", but just a History revisit.

After creating a new bug report with the URL specified, in NS4/IE, I was able 
to 'Back' and 'Forward' WITHOUT getting prompted for a form repost.  

1. The current behavior in Mozilla is inconsistent with NS4/IE, which users 
won't expect.  The repost doesn't occcur (whether you've entered new 
information or not).
2. If you were purchasing a pair of shoes online for $112, would you want your 
credit card re-charged for every time you used 'Back' and 'Forward' to review 
your shipping/billing information?

I'm reopening this bug for the above reasons.

Comment 5

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Are you saying that step 7:
> 7. respond with 'ok' to the popup dialog wrt reposting form data
...in your original bug report, does not occur?

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

this sounds like a dup of 46338

Comment 7

[Margaret Lum]

I'm highlighting the bullet point in my previous comments.
_The behavior is inconsistent with Netscape/IE._ 

Note: If you cancel on repost in Mozilla, a submission is attempted, but fails 
because the component information isn't passed.

Comment 8

[Vladimir Ermakov]

Updating QA contact.

Comment 9

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

setting bug status to new.

Comment 10

[rods (gone)]

reassigning

Comment 11

[R.K.Aa.]

Some very related bugs - dups?
bug 52635 "Always wants to resubmit form if going back, even with cache-control"
bug 55055 "Go Back broken for form post results"

Comment 12

[Eric Pollmann]

Handing this to session history, which would be reposting the form data when
clicking back or forward...

Comment 13

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55055 ***

Comment 14

[Vladimir Ermakov]

Verifying Duplicate