Re: [Lynx-dev] Potential bug in forms

[Adon Shapiro]

The choice of port was arbitrary. Feel free to change it for your own use. As
for the libs, they're just imported from the python standard library so nothing
additional should be needed to run the demo server.

Adon

On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 02:35:13AM +0000, Conor Williams wrote:
> 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