59258 - form cannot be submitted (or at least doesn't act like it's been submitted)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P2)

Description

[buster]

this is a netcenter page, using WinNT 20001106 rtm candidate client.
1. go to the url
2. fill in all fields
3. click submit
4. the page refreshes, with the form elements reset to empty
5. this is the url of the refreshed page:
http://netscape.homestore.com/Sweeps/CornerHW/Survey.asp?Q1=Steve&Q2=Clark&Q3=10172+Pinecastle+St&Q4=san+diego&Q5=California&Q6=92131&Q7=buster%40netscape.com&Q8=858-618-2225&Q9=Website&Submit=Submit&gate=aolnetscape2&source=a2nsrtrt36

Comment 1

[buster]

I tried this in 4.x and it works fine there.
After submitting the form, the resulting url should have been:
http://www.homestore.com:80/Sweeps/CornerHW/Thanks.asp?gate=aolnetscape2&source=a2nsrtrt36

Comment 2

[gerardok]

Not a form submission problem. I can see form data being submitted on 
TracePlus32. The problem is submission happens to an unspecified location 
because that's what the website is asking the client to do. See the following 
code:

<form action="http://www.realtor.com/Sweeps/CornerHW/Save.asp" METHOD="get" 
onSubmit="return checkForm(this)">
  <form>
    <table border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" align="left">
      <tr> 
      ....
        <td> 
          <input type="text" name="Q1">
        </td>
      ....

There is a form element embedded in the form that has the action attribute, so 
all elements in the inner form are submitting data to a form that has no action.  
Besides the action attribute is Required for valid HTML.

I copied the webpage into a local server and removed the inner <form> tag, and 
voila! NS 6.0 gets the "Thank you" notice responded by the server. The onSubmit 
event fired, JavaScript validates the form data, and the form is submitted to 
the href specified in the action attribute. 

This should be fixed in Netcenter.

Comment 3

[lchiang]

Great, Gerardo!
I will forward this over to Netcenter for them to correct.  I'll cc: greggl for now.

Comment 4

[lchiang]

got a phone call from kevinm at Netcenter.  I will forward this bug to him so
our partners can fix on their end.  Thanks for notifying kevinm for me, Gregg!

Comment 5

[lchiang]

kevinm tells me the page has been corrected.
I have verified this in my Win32 build (dated 11/8).

After I submit the sweepstakes, I got a thank you and get taken to
http://www.homestore.com/Sweeps/CornerHW/Thanks.asp?gate=aolnetscape2&source=a2nsrtrt36
.

Comment 6

[buster]

verified.  20001107 rtm candidate on winnt (not that it matters, it's a
server-side fix)