15180 - Submitting a form transmits no data to the server

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 7533

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[Keith Lesch]

When entering a zip code into the top left input box on www.weather.com's main site, i get an error upon submitting the form.  No data was sent to the server.  I attempted submitting with the "go" button on the page as well as hitting enter while in the input box.  Same results.

I am using build 1999082412.

Comment 1

[cpratt]

Using the 1999092208 build on Windows 98, an error message is returned: "No
content type was passed to uncgi."
Using the 1999092909 build on Windows NT, the same error message is returned.

Comment 2

[karnaze (gone)]

Reassigning to Kevin.

Comment 3

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

It is doing a post. The image button is submitting. It is setting a content
type. It looks like it gathered up all of the info from form elements correctly.

Re-assigning to pollmann

Comment 4

[Alan S. Jones]

The page http://www.latech.edu/cgi-bin/calendar
also has the same error when you change the month and hit the "Show Requested"
button on the upper right hand corner.

Comment 5

[Eric Pollmann]

Two bugs here:
1) The known content-type/charset bug 7533
2) We are specifying the referer twice.

Our original post data was (notice one Referer line and one referer line):

POST /cgi-bin/uncgi/zip_city_search.cgi HTTP/1.0
host: www.weather.com
accept: */*
user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 [en-US] (LINUX; I)
referer: http://blueviper/forms/post.html
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=ISO-8859-1
Referer: http://blueviper/forms/post.html
Content-Length: 17

destination=94043

I changed this to the following and the post worked correctly:

POST /cgi-bin/uncgi/zip_city_search.cgi HTTP/1.0
host: www.weather.com
accept: */*
user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 [en-US] (LINUX; I)
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Referer: http://www.weather.com/index.html
Content-Length: 17

destination=94043

I'm going to check in a fix or the referer bug, but after that, this bug will
have to be marked a dup of 7533.

Comment 6

[Eric Pollmann]

Checked in a fix for the referer bug.  I'm marking the rest of this a dup of
7533

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7533 ***