- From: Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 13:56:26 +0200
2007/7/1, Philip Taylor: > WF2 says: > > "When the [form element's action] attribute is absent, UAs must act > as if the action attribute was the empty string, which is a relative > URI reference, and would thus point to the current document (or the > specified base URI, if any)." > > But: http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C%21DOCTYPE%20html%3E%0D%0A%3Cbase%20href%3D%22http%3A//google.com%22%3E%3Cform%3E%3Cinput%20type%3Dsubmit%3E > > In IE7, FF2, FF3, Opera 9.2, it ignores the base URI and always > submits to the current page. In Safari 3, it does take account of the > base URI. In all, <form action=""> does the same as <form>. In all, > <form action="."> does take account of the base URI. Perhaps it would > be sensible to follow the majority. Wouldn't that be a violation of RFC3986? http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-4.4 Are there pages in the wild relying on that behavior (i.e. has Apple received a bug report for pages breaking in Safari? [1]) [1] Hmm, seems like there is such a bug report, with people misunderstanding RFC3986 ?4.4 and relying on such broken behaviors: http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7763 (for the first example, it's at http://www.polytechnique.fr/eleves/login.php, there's a <base href="http://www.polytechnique.fr/eleves/"> and <form action=""> expected to be POSTed to login.php) -- Thomas Broyer
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