Closed Bug 80989 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

view source is tied to URL value, not actual page contents

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 55583

People

(Reporter: old-mozilla, Assigned: asa)

Details

I'm not sure what component should own this, so I'll welcome whatever routing folks deem appropriate. I've also set OS/platform to all based on seeing this on windows, linux and aix... the assumption being that this is a xp problem. If you have a web page that is generated from a form post that doesn't change the URL from one form to the next, then the view source functionality is totally broken as it never picks up newer pages. In the case of the "weblication" (I hate that name, but that's what they want to call it) I'm developing large portions of the system are driven by php scripts using POST forms where the values that are posted on subsequent calls manipulate the forms that are presented. For example, when you first open foo.php as a normal get (no variables passed in) you are presented an opening menu which contains a form with type POST and url $PHP_SELF, an additional field of type string named "what" represents which option you choose, and then posts back a sub menu which has the same form with the same "what" field and an additional field "how" that is filled in on that form... this continues through several steps, adding more and more data along the path until the final confirmation where you may have upwards of 30 pieces of information collected and finally commit the desired action; afterward you are returned to a previous menu, either the "what" menu or the "how" menu depending on a number of issues. You can easily go hundreds or thousands of requests without the url ever changing, my record according to server logs is over 10K durring a week of testing (never bothered to close mozilla for about a week, just xlocked). Now in all of that time moz is clearly fetching a nuber of different pages, and they do not all have the same source, but no matter when durring that sequence you choose view source you always get the same source... the initial page that was fetched, the "what" menu. This can be absolutely infuriating when you're trying to debug why a specific page several steps deep into the menu renders oddly under mozilla. (it was an inproperly nested tag, we found it with konquerer.) If someone needs to see an example of this I can create one if you have a php enabled server.
This is a known issue. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55583 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
yuo
ARGH! "view-source" not "view source" nor "viewsource" nor "source view"... no wonder I couldn't find it in my queries... thanks guys!
Verified Dupe...
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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