[webkit-qt] Browser Back not consistent with Safari browser.

[Zaheer Ahmad]

Hi,
Its a redirection and i suppose only committed URLs go in to history?

Regards,
Zaheer

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Srinivas Rao M Hamse
<msrinirao at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello WebKitters,
>
> I am working on the QT 4.7.0 Port of WebKit demo browser. I am facing an
> issue of multiple history items getting added when i load
> http://www.hdfcbank.com. That is when i visit this page, there are two
> entries in my back forward list that gets added into it as follows:
>
> http://www.hdfcbank.com/
> http://www.hdfcbank.com/personal/default.htm
>
> The second URL may be referred by the first one and hence gets added
> separately into web history. When we press Browser Back, it tries to *again*
> load the first page followed by the second one. This way you cannot come of
> the this site by hitting single browser back button.
>
> In Safari browser, it loads two URLs, but when i press Browser Back, it
> comes to a blank page and stays there.
>
> Only in Firefox browser this site working fine, it some how intelligently
> filters out first entry and adds only the second entry to it. On pressing
> browser back you will come back to the previously visited website.
>
> My question here are:
> a. WebKit-QT's demo browser implementation has to be matching with that of
> Safari. Why is this behavior not consistent ?
> b. Is there a way that we can avoid addition of multiple entries into
> back-forward list for the sites belonging to the above category ? If yes
> please post the pointers to this buglog.
>
> Thanks,
> Srinivas Rao M.
>
> --
> Srinivas Rao M  Hamse
>
>
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