livejournal problem (form clearing with BACK button)
protahn
experts can :)
you probably need to be a livejournal user to test this (as that's the
only example i have right now).
the problem occurs when i go to reply to someone's journal post. i get
a page with a form. i fill it out, hit the PREVIEW button, and another
page loads. it tells me to use my BACK button if i want to fix
anything. great so far.
the problem is that when i hit BACK, the previuos page's form is
cleared! (i went to a site i made that has simple forms and this does
not occur.)
AND.. it only does this for me using mozilla. IE55 and NS479 don't do it.
i checked for javascipt in the livejournal page and i don't see any.
i've been up and down mozilla's preferences (thinking maybe it had
something to do with form-saving) and i'm truly stumped.
if you need more info/specifics, please ask. also, please post here, as
i'll be checking.
Mozilla 1.1a+
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020709
anyone??
michael lefevre
> i've run into something and i can't seem to figure it out. maybe you
> experts can :)
netscape.public.mozilla.seamonkey isn't really the right group for this -
would be better off in the user groups...
http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.0/faq/enduser.html#11.2
> you probably need to be a livejournal user to test this (as that's the
> only example i have right now).
>
> the problem occurs when i go to reply to someone's journal post. i get
> a page with a form. i fill it out, hit the PREVIEW button, and another
> page loads. it tells me to use my BACK button if i want to fix
> anything. great so far.
>
> the problem is that when i hit BACK, the previuos page's form is
> cleared! (i went to a site i made that has simple forms and this does
> not occur.)
>
> AND.. it only does this for me using mozilla. IE55 and NS479 don't do it.
[snip]
I have also noticed this issue with livejournal. however, mozilla doesn't
generally do this, it's just for that page.
there's no script in the page, but the form page is served with a header
like this:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:55:45 GMT
Server: Apache
Cache-Control: private, proxy-revalidate
ETag: "be598bf68d8f09f3d4fc93e1d34882d7"
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Language: en
X-Cache: MISS from www.livejournal.com
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
I'm guessing that the cache-control header is making mozilla reload the
page, and so clearing the form, but I'm not sure. If it is, I'm not sure
if mozilla is doing it wrong, or if IE is doing it wrong (and therefore
the livejournal server would be the issue)
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michael
Jonas Jørgensen
>> the problem is that when i hit BACK, the previuos page's form is
>> cleared! (i went to a site i made that has simple forms and this does
>> not occur.)
> there's no script in the page, but the form page is served with a header
> like this:
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 09:55:45 GMT
> Server: Apache
> Cache-Control: private, proxy-revalidate
> I'm guessing that the cache-control header is making mozilla reload the
> page, and so clearing the form, but I'm not sure. If it is, I'm not sure
> if mozilla is doing it wrong, or if IE is doing it wrong (and therefore
> the livejournal server would be the issue)
Mozilla is doing it wrong. 'private' means that only private caches like
Mozilla's (as opposed to public caches such as proxies) are allowed to
cache the page. 'proxy-revalidate' means that if a proxy server has
cached the page, it must contact the server to check that the file
hasn't been updated before the proxy passes the cached copy on to a
client. 'proxy-revalidate' is redundant in this case, as 'private'
indicates that proxies aren't allowed to cache the page at all.
Protahn, I suggest you go file a bug at <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/>.
/Jonas
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michael lefevre
bug was filed:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156684
however, I can't reproduce this any more for some reason... hmm...
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michael