From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010507 BuildID: 2001050716 I was trying to view the source of a frame and the source I kept getting was not the page I was viewing. Then I noticed that in fact when I asked for the source, the browser was sending a request back to the server, which then was serving up a different page, since the request did not contain the needed parameters. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Request a web page from a server where you can see the request/access log, like in a basic Apache setup. 2. Note the time of your request. 3. Wait a couple of seconds, then right-click on the page and select "view Source". 4. recheck the log and note the new request w/ a later time. Specifically, I was trying to look at the results of a search query, but since the new request did not contain the search string, the server would send a page back asking for the search string. I'm developing stateful session based applications in Java using servlets. This is pretty serious because in my pages I use several hidden form fields to maintain the sequence of operations, and if these change or contain incorrect values, then the session is reset. So if a user was in the middle of making a purchase and had already entered address info, then on the credit-card page did a "View Source", he'd be reset back to the initial page. Whatever, it shouldn't make a new request, right?

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

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