183058 - Mozilla does not work a METHOD=GET search engine.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Charles Douglas Wehner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
Build Identifier: Mozilla 1.3a Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021202

ISINDEX is used as a command to create a search-box, not as an ENVIRONMENT 
VARIABLE. My search engine recognises QUERY_STRING, as delivered by LYNX, 
MOSAIC, NETSCAPE and IE. Mozilla sends the query-string as ISINDEX=WORD, so 
that QUERY_STRING is corrupted, and nothing is found.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enter http://wehner.org
2.Type "the" into the search engine
3.click the ENTER button.

Actual Results:  
The search result quotes "ISINDEX=the"  (in one box)
There is "No search results"            (in the other box)

Expected Results:  
The search result should quote "the"    (in one box)
(305 boxes with data)
There should be "305 search results"    (in last box)

The test engine was thoroughly tested on many, many platforms. 
This is a Mozilla bug!

When the following is tried: http://wehner.org/cgi-bin/env.pl?what
the result is "QUERY_STRING  is set to  what"
but ISINDEX is not amongst the ENV variables.

It picks up ISINDEX from this code snippet in the driver HTML:
<input NAME=isindex SIZE=16 MAXLENGTH=28></td></tr>

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Well, I get the same results with Internet Explorer 5 and iCab 2.8.2, both on
Mac OS 9.2.2. And that's how it should be. Your text-field is called 'isindex',
and that's what Mozilla is trying to set. Remove the name of the field, and it
will work.

BTW : Mozilla never send a querystring or any other environment variable.
Thats's your webserver who does that.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yep.  The input name should be sent with the input value.