79840 - document.referrer is not consistent.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[Prashant Desale]

document.referrer is not consistent, even if the referrer is same.
Funny thing is it current referrer gets replaced by child's [child window] 
form. action value.

BUILDS:xpcdom as well as regular trunk.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1] Please visit URL above.
2] IMPORTANT: Please carefully read & understand everything mentioned on the 
testcase.
3] Click button "Start document.referrer Test"
4] Child window showing document.referrer would be opened 5 times.


EXPECTED RESULTS:
All 5 times child window should show 
"document.referrer : http://bubblegum/desale/cgi-bin/first.cgi"

ACTUAL RESULTS:
first time child window shows 
"document.referrer : http://bubblegum/desale/cgi-bin/first.cgi"
But Other 4 times it shows 
"document.referrer : http://bubblegum/desale/cgi-bin/second.cgi"
[This is wrong. How can document.referrer change to form.action value of child 
window ?]

Comment 1

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Future.

Comment 2

[Prashant Desale]

SEVERITY = MEDIUM [(1)No Crash, (2)Complete functional failure, (3)No Cosmetic 
failure]
VISIBILITY = MEDIUM [(1)There can be real website usage. (2)Gets one point of 
compatibility with other browsers since it works very well on NS4.x. (3)Gets one 
more point on compliance with adopted techonology which  is JS] 

PRIORITY = VISIBILITY * SEVERITY

Hence Priority = p3

adding word "qawanted" because I'm setting this priority on available data & if 
someone feels otherwise then please investigate this more & feel free to change 
this priority.

Comment 3

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Mass-reassigning bugs to [e-mail]

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Is that testcase still accessible?  If not, I'm going to mark this worksforme...

Comment 5

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

I don't think so, and I doubt there's anywhere here at AOL who knows.

The server has a DNS entry, but pinging it results in TTL expiring in transit.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Tha AOL firewall kills ICMP packets, you know....  Used to be you couldn't ping
any mozilla.org stuff either.

Comment 7

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Not to _internal_ destinations, it doesn't.

We're class A NAT'd.  Anything within 10.xxx.xxx.xxx resolves, as long as it has
correct information.

(I've set up a full lab here...)

Anyway, I'm very doubtful anything useful can be found in this building...