submitting a form without action parameter

[Tauqir]

Hi,
Is there a trick for submitting an HTML form without action parameter
pointing to the target file?

I am trying to reverse engineer an html form inside a jsp page. and
this is what I come across

<form method="POST" name="Userpassh idden" onsubmit='retur n true'><!--
action="../../login.jsp" -->
.....
<input id="bok" class="buttonAc tion" type="button" value="OK"
onclick="doLogi n()">

--------

this is the doLogin function

function doLogin() {
document.forms. Userpasshidden. user.value =
doEncode(docume nt.forms.Userpa ss.duser.value) ;
document.forms. Userpasshidden. pass.value =
doEncode(docume nt.forms.Userpa ss.dpass.value) ;
if (document.all) document.all["bok"].disabled = true;
else document.getEle mentById("bok") .disabled = true;
document.forms. Userpasshidden. submit();
}

[Danny]

Re: submitting a form without action parameter


You have to be more specific on what you need. Forms, submit to action=
file, that's what submit is for, if you don't have an action, then,
there's nothing to submit, so, the absence of action= defeats by itself
any submission of any kind, I gather you mean, use form elements for other
processing, not making a server call with parameters.


Danny
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[Randy Webb]

Re: submitting a form without action parameter

Danny said the following on 8/2/2005 1:09 AM:[color=blue]
>
> You have to be more specific on what you need. Forms, submit to
> action= file, that's what submit is for, if you don't have an action,
> then, there's nothing to submit, so, the absence of action= defeats by
> itself any submission of any kind, I gather you mean, use form elements
> for other processing, not making a server call with parameters.[/color]

Ok, so, if I have no action then the form won't submit? In WHAT browser?
If no action is present, the form submits to itself. Had you tested that
before you posted, you would know that. But testing is beyond your
abilities evidently.

--
Randy
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[David Dorward]

Re: submitting a form without action parameter

Tauqir wrote:
[color=blue]
> Is there a trick for submitting an HTML form without action parameter
> pointing to the target file?[/color]

Depend on browser error correction? Most submit to the current URL, some
submit to action="./".

Leaving the action attribute off is very bad form (and it is *required* by
the spec).


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[Tauqir]

Re: submitting a form without action parameter

Guys, Thanks very much for your help. It was the case that the action=
nothing was posting to itself.