218976 - Data not being posted with HTML FORM POST in HTML Email Message

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 242974

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Richard Bywater]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

If you use a HTML FORM tag with POST method in a HTML message read using
ThunderBird 0.2, the data does not get passed to the Action URL.  GET method
works fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send a HTML email containing something similar to the following:
<form action="http://myhost/testing" method="post"><input
 name="Blah" type="text"><input value="test submit" type="submit"></form>
2. Open the email in ThunderBird
3. Type something in the text box and submit

Actual Results:  
When ThunderBird opens the Browser, the browser actually does a GET not a POST
hence all POST values are lost.

Expected Results:  
POSTed data - unless of course there is no way of doing this when initiating the
browser connection from ThunderBird.

Note that Mozilla Mail seems to work fine - it just seems to be ThunderBird.

Comment 1

[Malte Rücker (mbr)]

I doubt it is possible to transfer POST data to an external browser but maybe
someone with more technical knowledge can give a definite answer?

Comment 2

[Gail Gurman]

I have been having the same problem. 

This comes up for me when I try to reply to a comment on LiveJournal. Comments
are sent to me ("Reply to your comment" or "Reply to your post") with an option
to send a further reply. The form (method="post") includes a text area and a
"Post Reply" button.

In Mozilla Mail, clicking the button opens a browser window and posts the
message. In Thunderbird, it opens the browser, but LiveJournal gives this
response: " Comment not posted: POST required, or missing parameter."

Comment 3

[Michael Lefevre]

duping to newer bug because discussion has been started in the newer bug, with
my apologies for not spotting it earlier.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 242974 ***