Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx Bugreport

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Frank Kaefer wrote:

> Dear Lynx-Developers,
> 
> I recently found a real bug in Lynx that is present in 2.7 and earlier.
> 
> The bug is related to caching of HTTP POST data to a CGI script:
> If data has been posted to a cgi-script and the same script then
> has the option to restart the script by specifying the script's url
> (and this url is not inside a form), then lynx allways reposts the
> apparently cached data from a previous post to the script instead of
> just getting the url without submitting any data.
> 
> Hope this information is of some help to the development team.

It is not very clear (at least to me) what you mean, so an example would
have been helpful.

Does it matter 
 (a) whether the link is specified as an absolute or relative URL?
 (b) whether the (CGI-generated) page where this link is found has a
     BASE tag or not?


   Klaus

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