837056 - Print doesn't work why cookies aren't enabled???

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Aquila]

Attachment: PrintPreview.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Build ID: 20130116073211

Steps to reproduce:

I wanted to print a page from the blog of Richard Branson: Complexity is your enemy!

http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/blog/complexity-is-your-enemy


Actual results:

Instead of the actual page, you get a page saying that the cookies are not enabled.


Expected results:

Technically the print works, but it didn't print what it should have printed! It isn't what I see on the screen! 

Is the print sending another request? Is this logical? Isn't the page already on the client? Why then do a second request? Isn't complexity your enemy?

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

The site sends this header and basically forbid caching:
Cache-Control:	max-age=1	

and the page contains:
<link href="/css/print.1.44.css" media="print" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
The CSS is only loaded if you want to print and not if you load the page for viewing.

The real question is if you forbid cookies or set them to ask every time.

Comment 2

[Aquila]

Attachment: Privacy settings

Comment 3

[Aquila]

I don't forbid cookies and I didn't know that there is an option to "ask cookies every time", I can't imagine how it could work? If you ask cookies every time, it means that you don't save them, so ... what is the difference between "forbid cookies" and "ask them every time"?

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

forbid every time= you don't allow cookies
ask every time= Firefox asks you if you want to allow a cookie.

Sorry that i didn't tested the page better the first time.
The site asks you (british law) if you want to allow cookies and you still get the "cookie" printout if you allow them.
I also get a special warning in my print preview that I disallow cookies due to my enabled "Do-no-track" header.

That happens in all browsers that i have tested (IE, Opera) and is an issue that only the site can fix.
The browser have to load additional resources for printing because the site asks for that.
There is a workaround if you only want the image. Right click on the image and select "view image" and print only the image.