Hasanuddin Tamir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> No wonder Alexei V. Barantsev on Jul 8 said that,
>
> AVB] Playing with CGI I have found that real behaviour of start_form
> AVB] without parameters does not correspond to documentation.
> AVB]
> AVB] >From the documentation:
> AVB]
> AVB] The defaults are:
> AVB] method: POST
> AVB] action: this script
> AVB] enctype: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> AVB]
> AVB] >From the source code of startform:
> AVB]
> AVB] $method = $method || 'POST';
> AVB] $enctype = $enctype || &URL_ENCODED;
> AVB] $action = $action ? qq/ACTION="$action"/ : $method eq 'GET' ?
> AVB] 'ACTION="'.$self->script_name.'"' : '';
>
> Yes, it's empty. And when it is, according to HTML spec,
> the default ACTION will be "this script". So the doc is
> just fine.
>
According to HTML 4.0 specification attribute 'action' of FORM element
is required. From DTD of "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN":
<!ATTLIST FORM
%attrs; -- %coreattrs, %i18n, %events --
action %URI; #REQUIRED -- server-side form handler --
method (GET|POST) GET -- HTTP method used to submit the form--
enctype %ContentType; "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
...
--
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