Re: lynx-dev CGI POST parameters bugs

[Klaus Weide]

On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, CyberPsychotic wrote:

> Hello people,
>  Maybe this bug has already been reported, but I searched net and didn't
> find any reference, however here's what seem wrong to me:
> 
> I have two html pages, first and second ones are results of some cgi script
> which generated this form. now that's what I do:
> 
>  I fill in the form, then press submit (form uses post method). The form
> gets submited, and on the second page script just places an <a
> href="scriptname">foo</a> link to itself. Now when I `click' this link, the
> script gets previous parameters submitted again via post method. This might
> be considered not being a bug but feature, but neither of other browsers
> (NC,MSIE) behave this way.
> 
> Unfortunately I don't have time to track down the problem in source code, so
> no patches yet, but if you, people are too busy, I will play with it over
> comming weekend and send you a fix.

Please configure with --enable-internal-links and recompile lynx.
Let us know whether lynx then behaves as you expect (and as it should,
in my opinion).

   Klaus