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Bug 12446 - should make sure we define that if you pushState() or replaceState() on a non-GET-like resource, it turns into a GET-like resource (e.g. for reload purposes)
Summary: should make sure we define that if you pushState() or replaceState() on a non...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-04-08 01:27 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:36 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-04-08 01:27:06 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dom-history-replacestate

Comment:
should make sure we define that if you pushState() or replaceState() on a
non-GET-like resource, it turns into a GET-like resource (e.g. for reload
purposes)

Posted from: 76.102.14.57 by ian@hixie.ch
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/10.0.648.204 Safari/534.16
Comment 1 Max Kanat-Alexander 2011-04-08 01:32:38 UTC 
For some background, here's the discussion where we started to realize this was a problem:

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577720#c22
Comment 2 Justin Lebar 2011-04-08 01:41:23 UTC 
This is what FF4 does.  Nobody seems to be complaining.  :)
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-07-14 22:38:02 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 4 contributor 2011-07-14 22:39:24 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6298.
Check-in comment: Make pushState() and replaceState() switch the session history entry to GET.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6297&to=6298
Comment 5 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:36:26 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1