96159 - save as does not save anything. attempts get to a url just sent post data to

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 40867

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[spyderz42]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801
BuildID:    2001080110

When I pay a bill online. or go to some other websites generated by a post and
choose to save as, view source, ctrl-s and save the file it saves junk.
Essentially it appears as though it is doing a get to a uri that I just did a
post to. Shouldn't this be doing a save of the cached document?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go pay your discover card bill online
2. Try to save a "receipt" of your payment
3. view saved "receipt"

Also done this buying items off of i4digital.com

Actual Results:  saved a get to the uri that I just did a post to.

Expected Results:  saved a cached copy of the file just downloaded from the uri

I think this bug is pretty important because it makes it impossible to
save/prove that you made a purchase if they lose it.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter: Have you a Test URL for us ?

-> Networking

Comment 2

[spyderz42]

I am leaning towards this being a problem with my install. While trying to
verify it mozilla continued to crash (I submitted a netscape feedback about
crashes while trying to save). I uninstalled and re-installed and everything
appears to be working correctly. I am going to attempt when I pay my next online
bill and I will close this out if it works correctly.

Comment 3

[spyderz42]

Just attempted this again. Went to pay my discover card bill and after I
submitted my payment tried to save the web page. Also attempted to do a view
source. Neither of which returned the expected text (ie what I was seeing on my
browser). I can not provide a url, however if you pay your discover card bill
online you are welcome to try it. If I find a url that I can reproduce it on
that does not require personal information I will let you know.

Comment 4

[Andrew Hagen]

Worksforme. I assume that saving the html output of a POST generated file is
probably the issue here, and that it wasn't limited to Discover's web site.
Papajohnsonline.com uses POST in this way. I was able to save a copy of the POST
output from this web site without any corruption.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4+) Gecko/20010928.

One caveat. When I saved the POST file it prompted me to reload the POST data. I
told it to go ahead. But since I ordered the pizza a couple of hours ago, it
gave me not the receipt but an "authorization denied" message. The authorization
denied message was generated by the web server, however, and is proper
considering that it was an old order. 

I think this problem must have been fixed at some point since 0.9.3. Worksforme.

Comment 5

[Mike Schuette]

I believe the reporter meant File | Save As should save the exact page that is
being viewed, without another trip (POST) to the server.  "If it's on my screen,
it should be printable/saveable."

This is covered by bug 40867, and I'm marking this a dup as such.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40867 ***