Firebird 2.0.0.6 refetches on "Save Page" without sending POST data

Binary package hint: firefox

My intranet uses POST forms. The result is another page, of course. "View Page" shows me the resulting page in Firefox's cache. But "Save Page" re-fetches the page from the server. Since the POST data is not re-sent, I actually save a DIFFERENT page from the one I see. "View Page" shows me the page from Firefox's cache, and does not re-fetch it. But even in "View Page", if you use "File / Save Page As", it re-fetches the page.

Since the Web Developer Toolbar uses "Save Page" to pass local pages on to the w3c validator, what I am validating is not the page I am looking at!

The only way I have found to get the actual page is to bring up "View Page Source", then Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C to copy it all to the clipboard and paste it into a text editor (I use kwrite). Then I can save it there.

Earlier versions of Firefox did not have this problem. I presume that they did a "Save Page" from the cache which is where "View Page Source" is getting the text from.

Any page which is regenerated when fetched (e.g. *.php) can give untrue "Save Page" results when the page is re-fetched. This is not limited to POST forms - even a page which shows the date and time will, I presume, generate a different time when it is re-fetched.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 18 07:22:57 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: firefox 2.0.0.6+1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux dell1 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Sun Sep 23 19:50:39 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux