511631 - Problems loading SSL files after clearing cache

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 480619

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Derek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2

I have re-created this issue in version 3.0 and 3.5 of Firefox. When you clear the Firefox cache and then go to any page that serves a .js file or other files from an SSL location, javascript is not re-loaded and method calls to methods defined within that javascript will fail. After closing and re-opening firefox, the problem goes away.

If you try the same scenario with an http (Non-SSL) location it will work as expected.

You can see a similar example if you go to facebook's secure site: https://www.facebook.com and clear you cache.  Then if you reload the page, you will see a lot of broken images and if you run firebug you will see a bunch of javascript failures.  If you do the same thing on the non-secure site: http://www.facebook.com, it will work fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Clear the firefox cache
2.Go to a site that loads javascript from an https (SSL) location and then calls a method within that javascript.

Actual Results:  
Javascript method fails with an object not defined error.

I found some related posts online and some people referred to cache control headers like Cache-Control: public affecting this behavior, but cache control headers should only control how long an object is cached — they should never cause the javascript to not be loaded and fail. 


Expected Results:  
.js file loads and method does not fail.

I also noticed that sometimes after I clear the cache and try to refresh the page, nothing happens, but I saw that behavior reported in another bug.