Bug 13504 – Flash deep linking causes page to reload

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: WONTFIX
• Component: Forms

[Brandon Kelly]

Flash deep linking will cause the page to reload on the first attempt, but after that seems to work flawlessly.

I can only confirm that this happens when using the SWFAddress script (http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/) but imagine it happens using a homegrown deep linking script as well.

Safari 1.3 and 2 do not encounter this problem.

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

Clicking on the "About" link loads a URL of "http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/samples/flash/?#/about/" in WebKit, while in Camino it loads "http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/samples/flash/#/about/".  The extra ? leads to a different URL being loaded from the server.  The refresh is correct given the URL, but the URL difference between browsers definitely indicates a problem.

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

The cause of this issue appears to be differing behaviour when submitting a GET form with no input elements.  Safari 2.0 submits to the exact same URL, while current WebKit appends the ? to the end of the URL.  More recent versions of the SWFAddress code  (the current SVN version, for example) only use a hidden form to change the location for versions of Safari < 412.

I suspect this can be considered a site bug as Camino behaves in the same fashion as current WebKit when it executes the same JavaScript code. 

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

Downgrading from P1 because I think this may be the expected behaviour.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

(In reply to comment #2)
> The cause of this issue appears to be differing behaviour when submitting a GET
> form with no input elements.  Safari 2.0 submits to the exact same URL, while
> current WebKit appends the ? to the end of the URL.

Right, this was a fix for bug 8051.

[Sam Dresser]

Happens to me as well. Reproduced at http://www.mycokerewards.com/. Every link produces a full page refresh.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Duplicate of bug 7908?

[Brent Fulgham]

Flash plugins were deprecated long ago.