Closed Bug 324801 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Firefox 1.5 is appending a full URL to relative URLs in the document.form.action value

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 311573

People

(Reporter: ccrandall77, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

We've noticed with Firefox 1.5 that our form.action values are getting a full URL appended to them instead of just using the relative URL in the form tag's action attribute.

For example...

<body ... onLoad="onLoadSubmit()">
<form action="Inbox" ...>

function onLoadSubmit()
{
    alert(document.form[0].action);
}

In Firefox 1.0.7, IE 6, Safari 1.3 & 2, and NS 7.x the alert box's text reads "Inbox".  However, in Firefox 1.5 it's reading "http://localhost:9080/csp/CSPServlet/Inbox".

This behavior breaks all sorts of JS code that is comparing the action value to a string.

Here's a full example:

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Action Test</title>
    <script language="JavaScript">
      function onLoadSubmit()
      {
          alert(document.forms[0].action);
      }
    </script>
  </head>

  <body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" onload="window.setTimeout('onLoadSubmit();', 3000);">
    <p>Test page. An alert box with the action will be displayed in 3 seconds.</p>
    <form action="SmartBalanceProgress" method="post" name="SmartBalanceRQForm">
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

Even loading this straight off the file system gives an alert text of "file:///C:\......SmartBalanceProgress" instead of just "SmartBalanceProgress".


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Create an HTML page with a form tag whose action value is a relative URL.
2.  Use a JavaScript function to read the document.form[0].action value.
3.  Display that value.

Actual Results:  
The alert will display a full URL  (i.e. http://localhost:9080/csp/CSPServlet/Inbox).

Expected Results:  
I'm expecting the alert box to contain the form tag's action value verbatim (i.e. Inbox).
*** Bug 324814 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 311573 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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