Form content lost on going back to a form.

Bug #7983 reported by LaMont Jones
12
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ian Jackson

Bug Description

It's easy. Just type a bunch of stuff into bugzilla from your firefox browser,
accidentally click on something, then hit back. WHERE IS MY DATA!!!!

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

I recommend searching upstream bugzilla for this bug

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David D Miller (justdave) wrote :
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Christian Reis (kiko) wrote :

Actually, the bug may be any one of the bugs tracked at
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252729 or
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=288462 -- Stuart has run into this
on the launchpad wiki, and I believe it is indeed related to SSL. It would be
nice to get at least some explanation here of why this is happening.

Stuart's problem is that the ?action=edit form is /re-loaded/ when pressing Back
-- that's why the history is going away, I suspect. The headers on the relevant
page look like:

    HTTP/1.x 200 OK
    Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 21:15:30 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.0.50 (Ubuntu) mod_ssl/2.0.50 OpenSSL/0.9.7d
    Pragma: no-cache
    Cache-Control: no-cache
    Expires: -1
    Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
    Connection: Keep-Alive
    Transfer-Encoding: chunked
    Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8

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David Farning (dfarning) wrote :

Tested under breezy
firefox 1.0.7-0ubuntu20
i686

Is this still a problem? I am able to successfully navigate forward and back in
http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225
https://launchpad.net/people/dfarning/+edithomepage
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FindPage

without loss of form information.

My bank and brokerage account clear forms before navigating back to them.

thanks
-dtf

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Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

seems fixed for me too..

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Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

seems fixed with 1.5. Feel free to reopen it if needed.

Changed in firefox:
status: Needs Info → Fix Released
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