build 2001072003, Win95/98: 1. Enter some Bugzilla bug report page 2. Go offline 3. Press "Commit" A dialog box warning says : The page you are trying to view contains POSTDATA that has expired from cache..." and asks for confirmation. It is confusing and one can't get out of this unless he remembers to come back in online mode.

<erasing earlier comments> Ok, confirming this. I just went offline and was unable to submit this form with an alternate set of comments. Over to form submission. Platform -> All, OS -> All

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Should we change the text to warn the user that he's in offline mode?

*** Bug 114591 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This also occurs with expired POST cache. You should be able to hit cancel, hit back, and have it skip the bad page and go to the one before it. BTW - why does the POST cache expire so quickly?

summary correction

Notice that NS 6.2 does skip the offending page. I'm wondering if older versions of Mozilla did. This might be a regression.

setting milestone

test

*** Bug 157428 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 162291 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Here's a related one: 1. Go offline. 2. Visit Google (www.google.com), forgetting that you're offline (in the case, I was dialed in but forgot the browser was offline) 3. Browser has loaded cached page from Google 4. Type in search terms and press Submit. You get the submitting form data over unencrypted connection warning, but nothing happens. Mozilla should warn users when submitting forms offline that the browser is offline and that form submissions will not work.

The patch in bug 45421 fixed this.

V: Mozilla 1.6f, linux.