Closed Bug 147904 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

<form enctype=text/plain>

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Core & HTML
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: douglas, Assigned: john)

References

(Depends on 1 open bug,
URL
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Details

(Keywords: compat)

A request is made for text/plain POST data. Instead, it comes out urlencoded. <html><body> This form specifies enctype=text/plain. <form id="form1" enctype="text/plain" method="post" action="http://www.netscape.com"> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"> </form> Unfortunately, the POST data is urlencoded. <pre> &lt;form id="form1" enctype="text/plain" method="post" action="http://www.netscape.com"> POST / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.netscape.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1 Accept-Language: en-us, en;q=0.50 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66 Keep-Alive: 300 Cookie: UIDC=20011214170359:209.220.10.66:4054; NSCPHPAD1=set; ptfc=yfki; dcisid=2164056609.1022082227.2658781 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 13 Connection: keep-alive Submit=Submit </pre> </body></html>
See http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#form-content-type Basically, that value's behavior is completely undefined -- it is treated just like an illegal value. The standard behavior for illegal values is to fall back on the default value, which is application/x-www-form-urlencoded. What exactly do you expect the results of an enctype="text/plain" submission to be?
It should encode the POST data as literal plain text, like IE does.
So just like a url-encoded post (name/value pairs separated by equals signs and ampersands) except without the URL encoding? What happens if a name contains an equals sign or a value contains an ampersand?
What happens if a name contains an equals sign or a value contains an ampersand? That's what you get. If that's a problem for an application, they should to validation prior to submission.
OK. So it's an enhancement request that we implement this IE extension.....
Severity: major → enhancement
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: compat
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Hardware: PC → All
This is done with the mailto form submit patch. text/plain is the enctype used for that, and I made it possible to submit with POST to a server this way.
Assignee: alexsavulov → jkeiser
Depends on: 61893
This is done with the mailto form submit patch. text/plain is the enctype used for that, and I made it possible to submit with POST to a server this way.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Fixed with bug 61893. Testcase in URL.
URL: http://www.johnkeiser.com/cgi-bin/moz...
Marking fixed :)
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Verifying on build 2002-08-13-08-trunk
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Depends on: 543156
Component: HTML: Form Submission → DOM: Core & HTML
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