Problem with POST Method

[chaitu.madala]

Dear all,

I have been facing a strange problem with IE.

I have a form as below:

<form id="form_subset_products" name="form_subset_products"
method="get" action="../cart/addbasket.asp" >
<input type="hidden" name="act" value="from_products_subsets_page"/>
<input type="submit" name="sendd" value="Confirm And Buy"/>
...
...
</form>
and a javascript function is supposed to submit it as below:

var action;
action = "../products/template6_cart_details.asp";
document.getElementById('form_subset_products').ac tion = action
document.getElementById('form_subset_products').su bmit();

This code works fine in Firefox as intended. IE strangely submits the
form with unintended variables.

Querystring from Firefox:
"act=from_products_subsets_page&product_id_1318=13 18&add_qty_1318=2&product_id_1319=1319&add_qty_131 9=3"
which is right

Querystring from IE (for same values as above):
"add_qty_1307=0&product_id_1307=1307&act=from_prod ucts_page"
which is wrong and should have "act=from_products_subsets_page" insted
of "act=from_products_page". Also all the other values are wong too in
IEs querystring.

Can some one please suggest me where I am going wrong please??

Many thanks in advance,

Chaitu..

[john.lum]

Chaitu,

How are you accessing the query string? Are you certain that you're
getting it directly from the form submission and not after some
additional processing that may be kicking in under certain
circumstances in your ASP code?

In a simple test with the code you provided--making the action point
back to the test page instead of your ASP script--I get identical
behavior for both Firefox and IE, as expected.

Have you tried testing your form with a static HTML version of the page
that submits back to itself? At least you could establish baseline
functionality then begin to work toward whatever additional code
elements are causing the unexpected behavior.

My two cents,
John

[chaitu.madala]

Dear John,

I have worked with forms quite a lot of times earlier. I couldnt figure
out why its happening this time. Basically I dont quite understand
where IE picks up "from_products_page" from "act=from_products_page" in
the querysting.

The hidden field details:
<div id = "products_buy">
<input type="hidden" name="act" value="from_products_subsets_page"/>
<input type="submit" name="sendd" value="Confirm And Buy">
</div>

Even in my JS page, I never found a trace of "from_products_page". The
phrase "from_products_page" appears in a different page altogether. How
does IE pick it up from that page? Any clue? Could it be possible that
IE in my system is corrupted and that I need to install it again ??

Firefox works in exactly the expected way.

Many thanks for your time John,

Regards, Chaitu..

[VK]

ch***********@gmail.com wrote:

and a javascript function is supposed to submit it as below:

var action;
action = "../products/template6_cart_details.asp";
document.getElementById('form_subset_products').ac tion = action

I would blame (besides bad spirits :-) on the above.

Try instead:
....
var a = "../products/template6_cart_details.asp";
document.forms['form_subset_products'].action = a;
....

That *should* help;

[chaitu.madala]

Dear John & VK,

I have figured out the problem. There were some dynamic forms that are
created in DHTML layers that are generetad dynamically.. Initially I
thought of each layer as a seperate form. So there are many many extra
forms as the number of categories in the page. Firefox simply ignores
them but IE recognized that the names of all the generated forms are as
same as of the one I have been trying to call from Javascript.

So i have figured out a point that if there are multiple forms in a
page with same name, IE treats the first form that renders first as
default whereas Firefox treats the last one.

Found a new difference in the way the 2 browsers handle requests huh :)
atleast I have..

So many thanks again for your time..

Regards.. Chaitu

[Richard Cornford]

VK wrote:

ch***********@gmail.com wrote:

and a javascript function is supposed to submit it as
below:

var action;
action = "../products/template6_cart_details.asp";
document.getElementById('form_subset_products').ac tion = action

I would blame (besides bad spirits :-) on the above.

Try instead:
...
var a = "../products/template6_cart_details.asp";
document.forms['form_subset_products'].action = a;
...

That *should* help;

Don't be silly, a declared local variable masks all properties with
names that correspond with the variable's Identifier on any object on
the scope chain below the Activation/Variable object. There can be no
naming collision here, it makes no sense even to be suggesting this as a
problem causing possibility, or that these changes would alter anything.

Richard.