795640 - FF automatically redirects from pages where used to (but no longer is) a redirect - cached redirect

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1869588

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect, P3)

Description

[novotnej]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1
Build ID: 20120911180710

Steps to reproduce:

as a web developer I often change .htaccess files on my sites. Problem is, that FF remembers, that I redirected for example en.eceufire.org to eceufire.org. Now I removed that .htaccess, but FF still redirects me to eceufire.org. Other browser don't do it..


Actual results:

described above


Expected results:

FF shouldn't redirect automatically but find out, if it's still necessary. I understand the purpose, so maybe it could be switchable to 'development mode', so 'normal' users would have still faster access.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

301/302 redirects are cached, disabling the disk cache or clearing it should resolve that.

Comment 2

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

reloads should not just reload the thing in the address bar, but also the redirect chain that got us there.. I know there is another bug on this but I cant find it

Comment 3

[amar.lakshya]

(In reply to novotnej from comment #0)
> User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101
> Firefox/15.0.1
> Build ID: 20120911180710
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> as a web developer I often change .htaccess files on my sites. Problem is,
> that FF remembers, that I redirected for example en.eceufire.org to
> eceufire.org. Now I removed that .htaccess, but FF still redirects me to
> eceufire.org. Other browser don't do it..
> 
> 
> Actual results:
> 
> described above
> 
> 
> Expected results:
> 
> FF shouldn't redirect automatically but find out, if it's still necessary. I
> understand the purpose, so maybe it could be switchable to 'development
> mode', so 'normal' users would have still faster access.

can you present a testcase as well, so people can start working on the bug?

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258

Comment 5

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258

Comment 6

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

A needinfo is requested from the reporter, however, the reporter is inactive on Bugzilla. Given that the bug is still UNCONFIRMED, closing the bug as incomplete.

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Comment 7

[Manuel Bucher [:manuel]]

If we are closing (which I'm not sure we should), then it should be as DUPLICATE. It is a valid bug, but getting a test case is more likely in Bug 1869588 and Bug 1869588 is reporting the same behavior. The reloading of redirect chain is tracked in Bug 968273.