78553 - Form elements get reset after download [form sub]

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Akkana Peck]

Go to http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/tools/gcc/
Unblock all cookies from this site, if they're blocked.
Scroll down to a few lines near the bottom and click on "SDK version 3.5" (works
with this version of prc-tools).
Say OK to the license agreement.
Scroll down to the Unix section.
Attempt to download each part -- headers and libraries, documentation, examples
-- by shift-clicking (or by clicking and then saying save).
Check the resultant file types ("file *" will do it on unix).

Expected: three .tar.gz files are downloaded, containing gzip compressed data.
Actually seen: the first file is downloaded correctly, but all subsequent files
instead download html saying "You cannot download this directly, you must first
agree to the license."

I'm guessing that they're keeping this information in a cookie, and that this
cookie is somehow getting unset after the first download.  Not sure how to find
out for sure, though.

Works in 4.7: all four files (these three plus Update 1 up at the top of the
page) are downloaded as correct gzipped data.  In mozilla there seems to be no
way to download these files.

Comment 1

[Akkana Peck]

Actually, I think they're doing this with hidden form elements, not cookies.
I think it's a form element that's getting reset, but it's hard to tell because
View Source refetches the page, which fetches the license agreement page instead
of the resultant page (i.e. view source has the same bug that downloading has).

Comment 2

[rods (gone)]

eric, is this something you can take a look at?

Comment 3

[Akkana Peck]

The subject was misleading, I think the problem is in form elements.
Changing summary.

Comment 4

[rods (gone)]

reassiging

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This morning's builds had a bug ( bug 80746 ) which may have led to 
a Bugzilla user inadvertantly 
changing this bug from the Assignbed/Accepted status to the New status.  If you 
are the owner of this bug please check to see that it is in the correct Status.  
Thanks.

Comment 6

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Bulk reassigning form bugs to Alex

Comment 7

[Vladimir Ermakov]

This works for me on 2001-10-08-08-trunk build...

Comment 8

[Vladimir Ermakov]

yep, and now the page doesnt exist at all... verifying