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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Andreas K. Foerster wrote:

> Am Friday, dem 25. Apr 2008 schrieb 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.
>
> No, the POST data should be sent again, when someone uses the rleload
> function. But it should be GET for normal links.

agree (it has to keep the data for reload and activate, but has to ignore
the data for a link on the page generated by the cgi-bin script).

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