Reload/Refresh/Source & post method
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As of a few builds ago I keep bumping into pages not reloading because their initial request used the "post" method. Now there's been some discussion around this topic and I'm guessing a conscious decision has been taken on this (either by the Vivaldi or Chromium team). That said for me the current implementation is not really workable, or rather I really like the way Opera 12 and earlier used to handle this
Now as a normal user I think the current implement is actually not bad as it protects you from submitting duplicates. But putting my web-dev hat on I really like it to resubmit a post form multiple times if I so desire. In other words we have 2 different use cases that desire a slightly different refresh/reload approach. A simple solution to make this distinction would be for example to use Refresh (F5) as a normal refresh (i.e. it doesn't resubmit if it's post) and Reload (Ctrl+F5) as a "forced" reload (i.e. ignoring what request method was used). The normal user would typically use F5 and an web-dev/advanced user can overwrite it. The downside may that Reload also reloads any cached items but to me that's not an issue. Alternatively a "Force reload" (Ctrl+Shift+F5) option could be added. On a somewhat related matter, the current post behavior also affects the "View page source" (Alt+F3) as it will never show the source of the a posted page. Again for normal user this isn't an issue (they'd probably never look at the page source in the first place) but for web-devs this is rather annoying. Instead of showing the actual source it does a get request on the URL ignoring all values in the form. Now the simple solution is to just show the page source (that is in memory/cache somewhere presumably) but if a reload is indeed required it should just resubmit the previous request (post method and all values). My 2 cents -
I second this. It is not acceptable for the browser to just do nothing when I hit the refresh button. At the very least, it should issue a warning that it won't refresh the page because…
I would love to see the old Opera behavior, that is - nothing special, reload away, no super annoying "confirm form resubmission" pages.
And of course, why not make it configurable?
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BTW, now I can get into a state, where I am looking at the "Confirm form resubmission" page and it says "hit reload button to confirm" and when I do, nothing happens. :huh:
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Does anyone know anything new? This is very annoying.
