64901 - View Page Source for result of POSTed form

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 64100

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Frank Weng]

I'm developing a software which uses a lot of CGI scripts (written in C).
I use <input type=hidden ...> to send arguments to the CGI.
But when I want to view page source of the CGI result pages,
it seemed that it sent the requests to server again using the URL,
which had no arguments inside.
For example, I use 
<form method=post action=/xxx>
<input type=hidden name=arg1 value=1>
...
</form>
to generate a result page. When I wanna show page source, 
it told me "No Argument assigned." 
hence I cannot see the result page source.

Comment 1

[Stephan Niemz]

Yes, that's bugging me, too. I'm using build 2001010420 on NT4 at the moment.

You can reproduce this by loading the above URL
http://optionsscheine1.onvista.de/cgi-bin/os-vergleich.mpl,
entering some WKN, e.g. 716463, and then pressing "Vergleich starten".
The resulting page has the same URL, but comes from a form POST.

Now choose "view page source". Not only gets the page reloaded (which is always
annoying, not only with POSTs - it should be in the cache), but the shown source
is the source of the page *before* the form POST.

I don't know if Networking is the right component, but it's probably better than
Browser-General, so reassigning.

Comment 2

[Stephan Niemz]

Oops, this is a dup. Frank, please reopen if you disagree.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55583 ***

Comment 3

[timeless]

wrong bug.

Comment 4

[timeless]

asking law to mark this as a dupe of his reincarnation.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Marking as dup of law's reincarnation

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64100 ***

Comment 6

[Håkan Waara]

Verified.