92608 - Forms are repopulated with data when page set to no-cache or store on 'Back'

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 93027

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[mark budzyn]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows 98)
BuildID:    Gecko/20001108 Netscape6/6.0 & NS 6.1PR1 (Mac) & Mozilla build 
2001062815

In our web application we have a get credit card info page. The problem is
if the user returns to the page using the back button (if the transaction
fails) in Netscape 6(win) or 6.1PR1(mac), the credit card info is repopulated 
by the browser. (Our App is running WebSphere and NES on a Solaris box.) 

We have set the cache control to either no-store or no-cache. We see no
difference, the credit card info appears (our app will be used in libraries
and school environments, so we need to clear this info). We snooped the
connection between Netscape and the server and saw that the client did make
a request and receive a new page without the credit card info. So, it looks
like Netscape is inserting the info.

We've looked in the Form Manager and see nothing stored. In fact, we built a
test page with three fields called field1, field2, and (obviously) field3 to
test the behavior. We find that Netscape will repopulate these fields too,
even with caching set to no-store or no-cache.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Set up an HTML with fields, set the cache controls to no-cache or no-store. 
Fill in the forms and submit it. Go back, and the data will reapear.

Actual Results:  Data reappears even when the browser goes back and makes 
another request from the server

Expected Results:  Cleared the forms considering the page is set to no-cache or 
no-store and does perform a request from the server.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Over to session history.  ccing pollmann.

compare bug 74639 and bug 13537

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Also see bug 90288 and bug 65947

Comment 3

[Radha on family leave (not reading bugmail)]

This is dupe of 93027. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 93027 ***

Comment 4

[Claudius Gayle]

VERIFIED Dupe