Re: [Lynx-dev] Bug: CGI, POST-data

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 01:05:02PM +0200, Andreas K. Foerster wrote:
> Am Thursday, dem 24. Apr 2008 schrieb Thomas Dickey:
> 
> > Then, if I add a link in the generated page, activating that link
> > uses a GET - for my testcase.  Perhaps your generated page is a form
> > (also using POST).  If I can see what the whole picture looks like,
> > then I can respond better.
> 
> I send you a test-script with this mail.
> The link named "New" is a normal link should use GET, and it does that 
> in other browsers, but not in my lynx.

I can reproduce it.  Lynx's trace shows that it looks for the URL in
its memory, finds it (the right one), then goes to load it.  As I
read the code, it seems that the reason it then POSTs again is that
it still has the post-data at hand for the URL, and just uses its
existence to decide that it's ready to POST in the process of loading.

The simplest solution (which might be correct - will have to check)
would be to discard that data immediately after it is used to POST the form.

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