Where's the bug?

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Rimas Kudelis

hello,

I have a following problem:

When a person using IE logs on to http://post.online.lt (that's a pop3 o
http gateway), and clicks on a link to compose new email, a blank page
WITH PREVIOUS ADDRESS is displayed instead of the compose page. I've
been reported that even reading a message does not work sometimes.

When you press F5, the blank page gets out, and you can read/write the
message. It never happens with Mozilla FireFox for me, so I suspect that
it's a bug in IE (IE6 only?).

Could anyone confirm/deny that? And in case i'm not right, would you
please point me to the right problem?

Thanks everybody in advance.

Rimas "RQ" Kudelis
 
When you press F5, the blank page gets out, and you can read/write the message.

That suggests that the page is cached and that IE is not even checking
if it is still fresh.

Change your cache checking option to
Every visit...
(Alt-T,O,Alt-S,E)
 
The thing is that the blank page shows _previous_ address in the title
bar. I think that suggests that IE doesn't fully open the page itself, I
think. Would you agree with that?

However, I'll add a "no-cache" (or an appropriate) header to the
sources. That's a good idea, imho

RQ
 
Rimas Kudelis said:
The thing is that the blank page shows _previous_ address in the title bar. I think that suggests that IE doesn't fully open the
page itself, I think. Would you agree with that?
Click to expand...

The action of the form is:
<example>
<form name="login" method="post" action="/index.php">
</example>

So I'm not sure if that usually replaces what is in the Address bar anyway.
What happens if you set Work Offline (Alt-F,W) and clone that window
with Ctrl-N? Alternatively what Address (URL): do you see in that page's
right-click,Properties display? What content do you see in your "blank"
page's View Source window?

The ultimate diagnostic would be a packet trace which captures what IE
actually receives in response to the POST request. You could compare
a trace involving IE with a trace involving FireFox to confirm your assumption
that both browsers are seeing the same thing and just rendering it differently.

FYI if your OS is XP Pro you will find netcap available in the Support
Tools package. The .cap files it creates are binary but since the HTTP
protocol is mostly character based a lot can be determined just by browsing
them. Alternatively, Ethereal (freeware) can be used to format them
and supposedly can be used to capture traces as well (in more OS than
just XP Pro) but I have never had much luck with that feature.


HTH

Robert
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