Web/Safari - History - Images are not displayed after navigating to the conversation while offline

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 9.0.57 Reproducible in staging?: Y Reproducible in production?: Y If this was caught on HybridApp, is this reproducible on New Expensify Standalone?: N/A If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: https://expensify.testrail.io/index.php?/tests/view/5171771&group_by=cases:section_id&group_order=asc&group_id=306202 Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. If you don't have a conversation with images - Navigate to a conversation and send an few images
2. Navigate to another conversation
3. Disable the internet connection
4. Navigate back to the conversation with the image
5. Verify the images are displayed in the conversation history

Expected Result:

Images that have been previously loaded should display in the conversation history after navigating to the conversation while offline

Actual Result:

Images that have been previously loaded are not displayed in the conversation history after navigating to the conversation while offline

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• [ ] Android: Standalone
• [ ] Android: HybridApp
• [ ] Android: mWeb Chrome
• [ ] iOS: Standalone
• [ ] iOS: HybridApp
• [ ] iOS: mWeb Safari
• [x] MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• [ ] MacOS: Desktop

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[melvin-bot[bot]]

Triggered auto assignment to @johncschuster (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[CyberAndrii]

Tester likely has browser cache disabled, in which case I think this is the expected behavior

[melvin-bot[bot]]

@johncschuster Eep! 4 days overdue now. Issues have feelings too...

[johncschuster]

@lanitochka17 can you confirm if the browser cache is disabled when you are testing in offline mode?

[melvin-bot[bot]]

@johncschuster Whoops! This issue is 2 days overdue. Let's get this updated quick!

[johncschuster]

@lanitochka17 bump!