Closed Bug 31189 Opened 25 years ago Closed 24 years ago

HTTP-EQUIV Refresh broken

Categories

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking
Platform:
All
Windows 2000
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: bkaiser, Assigned: ruslan)

References

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Details

(Whiteboard: [nsbeta2-])

The refresh (and auto-refresh) continue to display the original page shown when it was opened. No updates are displayed on refresh. Have memory cache and disk cache turned on in Edit / Preferences / Debug. This same page refreshes and auto-refreshes normally in Netscape 4.72. Note: Bugzilla is reporting M13 when this browser is actually M14.
I can confirm this as a problem using W95 M14. Having searched Bugzilla, it seems there is a problem with Refresh HTTP headers, but HTTP-EQUIV meta tags are not flagged anywhere as broken... I also have no idea what component this lives in, so I'm just going to confirm it and hope someone else knows :-) Gerv
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Networking?
Assignee: cbegle → gagan
Component: Browser-General → Networking
QA Contact: asadotzler → tever
Here is their HTML header- <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="120"> <meta name="keywords" content="Houston, traffic, map, freeway, speed"> <meta name="description" content="The Houston Real-Time Traffic Map"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) [Netscape]"> <title>Houston Real-Time Traffic Map</title> </head> Looks like a problem with HTTP-EQUIV refreshes... jud?
Assignee: gagan → valeski
Summary: Refresh broken → HTTP-EQUIV Refresh broken
the refresh is occuring just fine. looks like we're not honoring some caching header or something. the images are supposed to reload but don't.
Assignee: valeski → gordon
Should this go to Neeti?
Target Milestone: --- → M16
Moving to M17 which is now considered part of beta2.
Target Milestone: M16 → M17
Keywords: beta2
Whiteboard: 1d
Keywords: nsbeta2
Putting on [nsbeta2+] radar for beta2 fix.
Whiteboard: 1d → [nsbeta2+]1d
*** Bug 34524 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Ruslan, do you want this or should I deal with it?
Up to you. Looks like we're not honoring pragma no-cache header and since this business is done somewhere inside of layout - the fix will amount to changing Refresh method in docshell to take an additional parameter to prohibit caching.
Reassigning to myself since I started to work on refresh problems anyway
Assignee: gordon → ruslan
Ok. Here's the deal. Strictly according to HTML spec, http-equiv is for the server-side use. It has not been the case, as us and IE were implementing refresh since a long time ago. If we were to adopt this extended interpretation - we would have to honor ALL http response headers in META tags, including cookies. It can certainly be done, but the changes will be kind of extensive in my mind. We can try though. Here's what HTML spec says: " The http-equiv attribute can be used in place of the name attribute and has a special significance when documents are retrieved via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). HTTP servers may use the property name specified by the http-equiv attribute to create an [RFC822]-style header in the HTTP response. Note. Some user agents support the use of META to refresh the current page after a specified number of seconds, with the option of replacing it by a different URI. Authors should not use this technique to forward users to different pages, as this makes the page inaccessible to some users. Instead, automatic page forwarding should be done using server-side redirects. " Adding gagan to CC-list
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Ok. I made refresh to do force-reload, which takes care of this specific case. The more generic problem is whether to and how to honor generic http-equiv headers needs further investigation. Removing nsbeta2 and moving to the future.
Hardware: PC → All
Whiteboard: [nsbeta2+]1d
Target Milestone: M17 → M20
Putting on beta2-minus notation, per request from Ruslan. This is not a critical bug, and we have a ton of stuff for PR2.
Whiteboard: [nsbeta2-]
It looks like bug 3248, "HTTP headers are not passed on to main NGLayout code", M18, is relevant to the remaining issues in this bug.
Ok. No need to fix this - it's ok the way it is. Everything else is another dubious feature.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
verified Wontfix
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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