Re: [Lynx-dev] Potential bug in forms

[Conor Williams]

Cool, thanks!
and ah... what if i go public with my website tho? there is a website redire
which re-undhcps your ip really r.s.
so, do i

On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 6:19 PM Adon Shapiro <adon.shapiro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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