314486 - Submitting form with method POST from one character set to another shows target page in original page's character set.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[John Blech]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7

I have a form on a page with character set: 
Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8

and View -> Character Encoding -> UTF-8


I submit the form using POST to an external page (in this case, a bank e-payment website), the bank responds like this:

HTTP/1.x 200 Document follows

Content-Type: text/html


which may be wrong, not specifying the charset.  but it's the bank so I can't change it.

Firefox displays the site as UTF-8 even though it's ISO-8859-1

If I specify a hidden parameter named _charset_, Firefox automatically sets it to UTF-8 and there is no way to override it.

utf-8 is automatically appended to accepted charset in the form:
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7


If I manually set Character encoding to ISO-8859-1 before submitting then target page displays in ISO-8859-1.

If I use GET method, then target page displays in ISO-8859-1 even though original page was in UTF-8.

IE works as expected.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Specify a form on a page with character encoding set to UTF-8
2. Submit the form to a page with no character set specified using POST method


Actual Results:  
Form "action" is displayed using UTF-8.

Expected Results:  
Form "action" is displayed in actual charset.

Using GET works and the Finnish banks accept it.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported on Firefox 2.x or older, which is no longer supported and will not be receiving any more updates. I strongly suggest that you update to Firefox 3.6.3 or later, update your plugins (flash, adobe, etc.), and retest in a new profile. If you still see the issue with the updated Firefox, please post here. Otherwise, please close as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
http://www.mozilla.com
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+mode

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.3 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.