476446 - Buggy behaviour with submit button and timeouts

Status: UNCONFIRMED

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

Description

[Enrique]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-ES; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1

I did a server code that automatically generetas the next wrong html:

<a href="/?action=checkOut&id=1003"><input type='submit' value ='Check-Out'/></a>

It's wrong since the sumit input is not inside a <form> tag.

By pressing the button a normal http request is generated following the anchor (./?action=checkOut...), but sometimes a second one is generated too. This second one looks to be related to the fact of using a submit button inside the anchor, but still, the http request is that of the anchor, not a new one related to a form.

 If I replace the <input type='submit' ...> with something more sensible, for example a <div> tag, the error vanished aways.

 Also, if the network connection/server answer is slow enought then no second http request is NOT generated.

 So, a a summary, the error just appears when a <input type='submit'> is placed inside the anchor AND the response time is fast (a ten of second or less)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
(as described in "Details")
Actual Results:  
Two http request are generated

Expected Results:  
A single http request ought to be generated

 It applies to both Firefox 3.1b2 and Firefox 3.0.5. I didn't check with other browser versions.