lynx-dev Bug in handling of POST's

[Hugo Haas]

Hi.

I have discovered a bug in the way Lynx handles POST's in forms.

Since the page I used to discovered it isn't public, I am going to
describe the behavior.

Suppose that you have a CGI script at http://example.org/foo.

This document contains a form with a POST method:

        <FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="/foo">
        [..]
        <INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="submit" VALUE="Proceed">
        </FORM>

I use the form, I get what I wanted. The page info says:

   Linkname: Example script results
        URL: http://example.org/foo
    Charset: iso-8859-1
     Server: Jigsaw/2.1.0
       Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:58:16 GMT
   Post Data: param=whatever&submit=Proceed
   Post Content Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
   Owner(s): None
       size: 36 lines
       mode: normal, no-cache

At the top of the result page, there's a link to go back to the first
step. Still from the information page:

Link that you currently have selected

   Linkname: Back to step 1.
        URL: http://example.org/foo

Following this link will, instead of sending an HTTP GET, send another
HTTP POST with the same data. Lynx is somehow stuck in POST mode.

The version I am using is "Lynx/2.8.3rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1
OpenSSL/0.9.4".

Regards,

Hugo

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