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Re: HTML Form process of POST by Safari

Subject: Re: HTML Form process of POST by Safari
From: Lucas Holt <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:37:19 -0400

It probably has to do with the fact that you are using a querystring for the action and the encoding type is set to url encode. Safari is appending the data to the action essentially creating a GET request instead of a post where the data is part of the message body.

I would recommend experimenting with removing enctype and/or droping the ?rm-login on the cgi and see what safari posts back then.

On Jun 23, 2004, at 11:18 AM, Leon Chen wrote:

I am testing with the following HTML with a simple test CGI on my OS X machine:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"> <head><title>Welcome</title></head> <body> <h3>Welcome </h3> <form method="post" action="http://localhost/cgi-bin/test/cgi-bin/test?rm-login"; enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" name="Form"> <h4><input type="submit" name="update" value="update particular" /></h4> <input type="hidden" name="rm" value="update" /><div></div> </form> </body> </html>
I found Safari behaves differently from IE and Netscape:
- I run it in Safari. I click the "update particular" button I got the URL like this: http://localhost/cgi-bin/test?rm=login?rm=update which obviously created error
- When I run the same HTML on IE and Netscape I got the URL like this:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/test?rm=update
Which works fine with the rest.
It looks like in Safari the Post form processing is like to just append the hidden value rm=update to the action URI while IE and Netscape would replace the the "rm=login" in the actions URI with "rm=update" which is expected the result.
Any one could advise why Safari does this differently?
Thanks,
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