I tested some pages containing sort of this HTML code: <FORM ... ACTION="thispage.phtml#tab"> ... <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT"> which is allowed AFAIK. When you press the submit button, the browser jumps to the anchor without (submitting the form and) reloading the page.

reporter, can you include a test case or a link to a page that demonstrates this problem.

I can confirm this, here's a test page: http://members.home.com/decklin/test.html It includes a hidden input, because AFAICT nothing in the HTML spec says you have to reload the page if you already have a cached version for the same (in this case, empty) query-string.

reassigning

Interesting, in Nav I see: test.html?foo=bar in Moz I see: test.html#tab?foo=bar in IE I see: test.html?foo=bar#tab http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt section 7) says IE is right.

*** Bug 43508 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This bug is nasty... anything yet?

I have at least a partial fix. Now when submitting the form we correctly go to this URL: test.html?foo=bar#tab This is not checked in yet.

Our behaviour is now like Navigator 4.x's, which I think is correct. The first time we load the page, we get this URL from the server: http://members.home.com/decklin/test.html Then clicking on the Submit button we get this URL from the server: http://members.home.com/decklin/test.html?foo=bar.html Clicking on the Submit button additional times beyond this will hit the cache because the URL+post data are identical. This is the right thing to do unless the server returns an Expires or Pragma: no-cache header. Marking this fix in hand, and will check in the fix I came up with above when the tree opens!

(updating mutiple bugs) Nominating this bug for beta3 because it is either a crasher or a correctness bug and I have a straightforward fix in hand. This bug fix is small, low risk, and can easily be reverted with no side effects.

Marking nsbeta3+

This fix has been checked in. Coming up with a test case to assist in verification...

[andrew@andrew.org|Decklin Foster] could one of you guys provide a testcase? Decklin, the testcases you provided at http://members.home.com/decklin.test.html come back as no longer existing (according to @home). Thanks! -ckritzer

Still waiting to hear back from contributors...

sorry for the delay. I wrote a minimal testcase and posted it at http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/bug42616.html Clicking submit gives me the very weird result of http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/bug42616.html?2616.html#foo So it appears that this bug is fixed, but there is an unrelated one hanging around.

Updating QA contact.

Thanks, Verifying on -Windows 98 build 2000-09-25-08-M18 -Linux RedHat6.2 build 2000-09-19-21-M18 I am seeing the same behaviour though and will look into that.

> ------- Additional Comments From Decklin Foster 2000-09-17 20:36 ------- > ... http://www.red-bean.com/~decklin/bug42616.html?2616.html#foo Decklin, this was actually a typo in my original fix for this bug, causing the wrong number of characters to be chopped off for the anchor (notice it chopped off all but the left four characters when it should have chopped off only the right four characters. This was corrected when fixing the related bug 57333. Thanks for the sharp eyes!