[Zope3-dev] Re: form action

[Steve Alexander]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> Hm, strange.  I don't understand why "." vs. "" makes any difference.
> If the effective url is foo/bar/index.html, it should send the request
> to "foo/bar/." or "foo/bar/", not to "foo/bar/index.html".



> In fact, in my browser (NS 4.78) it doesn't make a difference.  What
> browser were you using?

A very recent Mozilla.

I'm trying things out with an empty action (action="") on 
http://localhost:8080/jl/new.

In response to an empty action, Netscape 4 is posting /jl/new/

In response to an empty action, Mozilla is posting /jl/new/index.html


However, when I test things with an empty action, on 
http://localhost:8080/jl/new/  (note the last slash)


In response to an empty action, Netscape 4 is posting /jl/new/

In response to an empty action, Mozilla is posting /jl/new/


Let me summarize using a table:

action=""
                  jl/new                 jl/new/

netscape 4       /jl/new/               /jl/new/

mozilla          /jl/new/index.html     /jl/new/


action="."

                  jl/new                 jl/new/

netscape 4       /jl/new/.              /jl/new/.

mozilla          /jl/new/               /jl/new/


In the odd mozilla case above, it looks like mozilla is using the base 
href: http://localhost:8080/jl/new/index.html

An alternative fix would be to make the Job Board always link to "new/" 
rather than just "new".

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Steve Alexander