Bug 65111

Summary: Forms are submitted as GET on Cmd+click, even if POST was specified
Product: WebKit Reporter: Tobias Tom <t.tom>
Component: FormsAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: NEW    
Severity: Normal CC: abarth, ap, aroben, beidson, darin, david.webkit.org
Priority: P2 Keywords: InRadar
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: Mac (Intel)   
OS: OS X 10.7   
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 74916    
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Tobias Tom
Reported 2011-07-25 08:13:48 PDT
When the submit button of a form is pressed with command, the action URL is opened inside a new tab. If the method was specified as POST, the URL will be requested with GET. There seems to be no possibility to submit a form to a new tab and use the POST method.
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2011-08-20 10:03 PDT, Jonathan Pool 		no flags
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Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 1 2011-07-25 08:58:59 PDT
<rdar://problem/9834043>
Jonathan Pool
Comment 2 2011-08-20 10:03:17 PDT
Created attachment 104620 [details] Test case. Command-modified link selection returns the linked page in a new tab. But command-modified execution of the "Search" button returns an "Error" page in a new tab. The "Error" page is returned because the server receives the form data with REQUEST_METHOD = GET and QUERY_STRING = "" (blank), instead of the form-prescribed method and data. This misbehavior was not present in Safari 4.0.5. Another browser exhibiting this bug is Chrome. Some browsers ignore the new-tab modifier, correctly submit the form data with POST, and display the returned page in the same tab. These browsers include Camino, Firefox, iCab, and Sunrise. Some browsers correctly submit the form data with POST and display the resulting page in a new tab, obeying the modifier. These browsers include OmniWeb, Opera, SeaMonkey, Stainless, and (as mentioned above) Safari 4.0.5.
Tobias Tom
Comment 3 2011-08-20 22:53:49 PDT
I would strongly vote for the second variant: to obey the modifier. It feels much more consistent.
Jon Lee
Comment 4 2012-03-29 13:43:39 PDT
*** Bug 82426 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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