[wsrp-wsia] [I#115] URL rewriting of GET form actions

[Gil Tayar <Gil.Tayar@webcollage.com>]

Status: Active
Topic: markup
Class: Technical
Title: URL rewriting of GET form actions
Raised by: Timothy Jones
Date Added: 17-Oct-2002
Document Section: Core Spec v0.7 section 9.2
Description:
Web browsers generally discard query string parameters included in the
action 
URL of forms that use the "GET" method.  In the example below the HTTP
request 
to the server corresponding to the form submission will contain the "param2"

parameter but not the "param1" parameter.

<form method="get" action="http://...?param1=value1";>
	<input name="param2" value="value2" type="hidden"/>
	<input type="submit"/>
</form>

If the URL rewriting method described in 9.2 implies that "meta" parameters 
will be added to an URL, then this method will not work on GET form actions 
(e.g., consider "param1" in the example above as a meta parameter).

Two solutions come to mind: (a) when rewriting a GET form action URL the
meta 
parameters could be added as hidden inputs to the form, or (b) the spec
could 
disallow GET forms in Producer generated markup.