56272 - Form does not load page when submitted to external window

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Keith Lesch]

***NOT related to bug 17754.****

Two attachments are coming to show this scenario.

The description is: A new window is opened by javascript.  The form is then 
submitted to that new window.  The receiving page is never displayed, although 
it does appear that the form submission takes place.  I tried this on a web app 
that I am working on...the form submitted its data just fine, and the data was 
stored and page executed, but no page is displayed anywhere.  :-(

Simply store the two files (form.html and received.html) in the same directory 
and you will see the situation.

Comment 1

[Keith Lesch]

Attachment: form.html

Comment 2

[Keith Lesch]

Attachment: received.html

Comment 3

[Keith Lesch]

My original test case loads a "Wait" page when it does the window.open, because 
the form submission is likely to take around a minute.  (So no, submitting to 
_blank is not acceptable.)  Mozilla loads the wait page just fine, but never 
moves on to the result of the form submission.

PS - I am using build 2000100920.

Comment 4

[rods (gone)]

This is probably a dup of Bug 52898

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

bug 54025 which 52898 was duped against was Fixed.  Reporter, whta is the
procedure for testing your testcases.  Is it still broken. If so this bug should
be confirmed.

Comment 6

[Keith Lesch]

My specific case still does not work.  My testcase posted here does work.  I 
will have to see if I can get you another testcase.

Comment 7

[Keith Lesch]

CRASHER

This bug occasionally crashes mozilla, it has done it twice for me.  Here is the 
procedure: 
1-unzip the 3 files in the coming attachment into the same directory.  
2-open form.html in a mozilla window.
3-click the button
4-(mozilla will first try to open a new window with a page in it, test.html.  
then the form tries to submit to that page.  then a call is sent to close the 
calling window.  various results occur depending on how far it had gotten in the 
process when the close window was called.  IE 4.5 on the mac had this problem as 
well, the form was sent off in a separate process.  In IE 5, the submit() call 
does not appear to return control until the form has been submitted.)
5-A successful submission will close the initial window and have a new window 
open at received.html.
6-An unsuccessful submission will vary in results from closing both windows to 
leaving you at test.html in the new window to crashing mozilla.

I hope this is a clear enough test case!  Let me know if you need anything else.  
Zip file is coming.

Comment 8

[Keith Lesch]

Attachment: Zip file with form.html, test.html, received.html

Comment 9

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

setting bug status to New

Comment 10

[rods (gone)]

With today's trunk build using viewer I ended up with three windows open. In 
yesterday's branch build it didn't crash and I only got one window up with this 
text:

"This is the page that loads before the form is submitted."

Comment 11

[Keith Lesch]

I would suggest that you try this multiple times with each of the builds you are 
using.  I suspect that you will get different results every time.  I did it 3 
consecutive times at one point and got each of the 3 situations I described 
above.

Comment 12

[rods (gone)]

reassigning

Comment 13

[Marek Z. Jeziorek]

vladimire: could you check if this still happens? if not please close it as 
WORKSFORME

Comment 14

[Vladimir Ermakov]

Tried on build 2001-03-12-09-Mtrunk Win 98
 Crashed...

Comment 15

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

This is almost certainly because our window creation happens (sort-of)
asynchronously and submit() is not worrying about whether the window has
finished creating itself.  If you put a long-running operation in between those
two statements, or if you /don't/ open the new window with JS, the problem will
go away.

Comment 16

[Vladimir Ermakov]

This works for me build 2002-01-18-08-trunk win2k. 

Comment 17

[Keith Lesch]

Works for me now too.