Re: Submit buttons don't send the button name

On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 08:21:29PM +0000, Dave Higton wrote:
> In message <9458d4a054.DaveMeUK@my.inbox.com>
> Dave Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
>
> >While writing a web server for my heating controller, I've realised
> >that Netsurf doesn't send the name of a submit button that has been
> >clicked in a form, unlike other browsers.
> >
> >For example, when the form is called "view_specials" and the button
> >is called "next", other browsers return a string including:
> >
> >view_specials?button=next
> >
> >Whereas Netsurf returns just:
> >
> >view_specials?
> >
> >Is this an expected deficiency? If not, it's clearly wrong, so I'll
> >extract a suitable fragment of HTML and post a bug report.
>
> No-one has responded, so I've raised a bug report.

Apologies, I was juggling the release with trying to squash a series
of nasty crashing bugs and missed the mail.

However, yes submitting a bug is almost always the correct answer, we
can always triage it and close it if necessary but we miss stuff if it
is not there.

I might take a look but dunno if it will make 3.3 or not.

>
> Dave
>
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