202842 - If get method form's action URI has arguments, they are not kept when submitting form

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Nowhere man]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030327 Debian/1.3-4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030327 Debian/1.3-4

When the form has an action with URI arguments like this :
<form action="http://www.domain.tld/file?arg1=1&arg2=2" method="get">
<input name="field1" value="3"/>
<input name="field2" value="4"/>
</form>

The HTTP requested URI will be :
http://www.domain.tld/file?field1=3&field2=4

But it should be :
http://www.domain.tld/file?arg1=1&arg2=2&field1=3&field2=4

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:


Actual Results:  
Only the arguments from within the form are in the HTTP request.

Expected Results:  
The arguments from the action URI should also be in the HTTP request.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Other browsers do not send those, and the algorithm described in the HTML spec
for GET form submission would lead to bogus URIs.

Is there a good reason we should break compatibility here?

Comment 2

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

It's really sad that other browsers do not send it, because it would be nice,
but I concur--compatibility on this question is way more important than the
scant benefit we get from being able to send both sets of parameters.  I do
believe many sites would break (yes, the sites are broken, but what can you do?).

Note that if you use POST, both sets of parameters are in fact sent, if you're
trying to find a way to do this.