Re: HTML::Form not submitting submit button name/value

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Gisle Aas wrote:

> print $f->click->as_string, "\n"; 
> print $f->make_request->as_string, "\n";

That's cheating :). Leave out the first click() and check what
make_request() by itself gets you.

Looks like the preceding click() has some mysterious side effect on
the subsequent make_request().

-- Mike

Mike Schilli
[email protected]

> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 08:24, <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Gisle Aas wrote:
>>
>>> HTML::Form supported both these by calling either ->make_request or
>>> ->click method. If all modern browsers agree that the button value
>>> should always be passed we should change as well.
>>
>> Interesting, both click() and make_request() yield the same result
>> here, excluding the name/value of the submit button in both cases:
>
> It does not here:
>
> use HTML::Form;
> my $f = HTML::Form->parse(<<'EOT', "http://localhost/");
>
>   <form>
>      <input type=submit value="Upload it!" name=n>
>      <input type=text name=t value="1">
>   </form>
> EOT
>

>
> This prints:
>
> GET http://localhost/?n=Upload+it!&t=1
> GET http://localhost/?t=1
>