65601 - The 'View Source' option displays incorrect content

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 55583

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Edward C Bean]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; N; PPC; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001108 Netscape6/6.0
BuildID:

View Page Source - Does not view the source of the page being displayed, it
views the results of a new (blank) cgi-form page request to the server. A page
can be something totally different if it is  cgi generated and not a static html
page.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. View any cgi-generated page that varies its content based upon parameters
sent to it in the form of HTML-Form variables.
2. View the source of the page (what you see is not the source for what is on
the screen).
3.

Actual Results:  The 'view source'option displays the source for a null/blank
HTML-Form submission to the cgi-URL, not what is in the browser current page
cache (which generated the page being displayed).  The browser is unnecessarily
and incorrectly making a fresh page request to the server (without re-submitting
the form content).


Expected Results:  You would expect to see the source code for the current page
being diplayed (not the results of a null submission to the cgi-url)


In original Netscape Mac versions View Source worked fine.
It was broken (just like this time) for several versions.
Several versions later it was finally fixed (after I found a Netscape sales
person that could understood the problem and how serious it was.)
It was fixed and working fine in Mac version 4.7.
It is now broken again in Mac version 6.0

This error means devlopers can not use Mac Netscape 6 to develop cgi programs
because they can't see the actual HTML code that generates any cgi driven web
page. You are pushing site developers to use Explorer which (in this instance)
works correctly.

Comment 1

[hirata masakazu]

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

Comment 2

[timeless]

vrfy dupe arch, mostfreq, relnoteRTM, nightmare bug 55583 view-source should 
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