61223 - redirected links never styled as visited

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 41973

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect, P3)

Description

[Amrutha.S.Shenoy]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001108
Netscape6/6.0
BuildID:    Mozilla/5.0 /20001108 Netscape6/6.0

Any link when visited is supposed to chnage color to thw color tht is set to i
its VLINK attribute .

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Open composer and creat alink to any web page,highlight the link in the copmoser
window and click on Format ->page color and backgorund and set the active link
,visited link and link text colors,save the same and verify that the colors
select are reflected back as ALINk,VLINK and LINK
colors in these attributes of the BODY Tag,see the same  page in the
browser,click on the link ,verify that the link leads to the locations as
decribed,and verify that the link when visited should change color set in the
VLINK attribute.


Actual Results:  Visited link should change to the color specified in the VLINK
attribute of the BODY tag.

Expected Results:  Visited Links do not change color as specified in the VLINK
attribute of the BOdy Tag

Comment 1

[Martin Horwath]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12493 ***

Comment 2

[Loco]

I don't think that this is a duplicate of that bug.  I do think its a duplicate, 
but not of this one-that issue seems to be specific to http://www.cnn.com/ versus 
http://www.cnn.com (with no slash at the end).  REOPENING until someone thinks 
otherwise...

Comment 3

[Loco]

Reporter-could you give us an example of what URL you used that had a problem?  
Thanks-d.

Comment 4

[Keyser Sose]

Works for ME:
Platform: PC
OS: Windows 98
Mozilla Build #: 2000120604 Mtrunk Build

Marking as such & because lack of reponse from reporter. reopen if this is still
a problem.

Comment 5

[Amrutha.S.Shenoy]

I have used this tag for netdress and yahoo,but it does not work.

Comment 6

[Amrutha.S.Shenoy]

I have treid the Vlivk attribute with a local file in the folder and seesm to 
wrok perfectly fine,but when I use the same to link to a wesite ,only the Vlink 
attributte does not work.

Comment 7

[Loco]

Reporter, would it be possible for you to incluse the *actual* URL you used, 
maybe a few links perhaps?  Thanks -d.

Comment 8

[Amrutha.S.Shenoy]

I have used www.netaddress.com,www.yahoo.com,www.ibm.com,but they did not work 
and that is why I tested the same using the attributes to link to one of the
documents in my local folder ans the VLink attribute seemed to work,

Comment 9

[Loco]

Here's a sample URL that did fail for me at yahoo:
http://srd.yahoo.com/drst/1036697/*http://home.earthlink.net/~hartmanc/

That said, it can be seen that the issue here is not simply that the HTML is not 
working here...its a joint failure of cache/history and HTML follow-through.  
Hope this makes sense, but check out the test case.

Confirmed on Mac build 2001-01-04-08.  Changing Plat/OS to ALL/ALL.  Updating 
Summary to reflect reall issue.  Reducing Severity.

Comment 10

[Loco]

Attachment: Test case showing four cases of links to the same page.

Comment 11

[Martin Horwath]

dan: shouldn't your last comment added to bug 12493 ?

Comment 12

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I'm going to change the component on this bug to History.  It seems that for
this to work, Global History needs to store all the redirects we pass through
and record that they've been visited.  (I don't know if there are any reasons
not to include redirects for some purposes.)

If they're not in history, there's no way for the style system to know.

Comment 13

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

I think this should be a dupe of bug 41973. I let the reporter and QA decide 
that.

Comment 14

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I don't think there's any question.  If anyone disagrees, please reopen.  I'd
rather not leave duplicate bugs lying around.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41973 ***

Comment 15

[Claudius Gayle]

VERIFIED Dupe