Re: [Lynx-dev] Potential bug in forms

[Conor Williams]

well Adon Shapiro, looks good and simple... why port 8000 why not port
8031 its free?
i'm using 8000 on mine so it's really reserved hmmm
we'll c...
ps: any quick linke for the libs?

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 10:07 PM Adon Shapiro <adon.shapiro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I think I may have found a bug in the way Lynx submits forms. While testing a
> personal website for text-only compatibility I came across an issue where a
> form that I use to send an empty POST request is actually sending a GET 
> request
> but only in Lynx. I discovered that this happens consistently with any form
> containing only a single input element. Adding a second input of any kind
> results in the form being submitted correctly in Lynx.
>
> To help recreate this, I have attached a small web server written in python3
> demonstrating the requests sent from two example forms.
>
> Additionally, here is the output of `lynx -version` in case that is useful:
> Lynx Version 2.9.0dev.10 (11 Aug 2021)
> libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, GNUTLS 3.7.2, ncurses 6.2.20210905(wide)
> Built on linux-gnu.
>
> Best,
> Adon