From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; N; PPC; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001108 Netscape6/6.0 BuildID: View Page Source - Does not view the source of the page being displayed, it views the results of a new (blank) cgi-form page request to the server. A page can be something totally different if it is cgi generated and not a static html page. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. View any cgi-generated page that varies its content based upon parameters sent to it in the form of HTML-Form variables. 2. View the source of the page (what you see is not the source for what is on the screen). 3. Actual Results: The 'view source'option displays the source for a null/blank HTML-Form submission to the cgi-URL, not what is in the browser current page cache (which generated the page being displayed). The browser is unnecessarily and incorrectly making a fresh page request to the server (without re-submitting the form content). Expected Results: You would expect to see the source code for the current page being diplayed (not the results of a null submission to the cgi-url) In original Netscape Mac versions View Source worked fine. It was broken (just like this time) for several versions. Several versions later it was finally fixed (after I found a Netscape sales person that could understood the problem and how serious it was.) It was fixed and working fine in Mac version 4.7. It is now broken again in Mac version 6.0 This error means devlopers can not use Mac Netscape 6 to develop cgi programs because they can't see the actual HTML code that generates any cgi driven web page. You are pushing site developers to use Explorer which (in this instance) works correctly.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55583 ***

vrfy dupe arch, mostfreq, relnoteRTM, nightmare bug 55583 view-source should show original source