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

[Carsten Leue <CLEUE@de.ibm.com>]

Gil - as this problem is more or less a standard HTML problem I would have
assumed that the parameters would have to be encoded as hidden input
fields, so the resulting request URL contains the correct parameters. Do
you think that we have to detail this aspect in the spec?


Best regards
Carsten Leue

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Dr. Carsten Leue
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             Gil Tayar                                                     
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                                       [wsrp-wsia] [I#115] URL rewriting   
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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.

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