Re: [IUG] Firefox v3.6.3 issue

[Bob Duncan <duncanr at lafayette dot edu>]

At 02:21 PM 11/17/2010, Alice wrote:
> In our catalog, we have a customized search page for Videos/DVDs
> http://library.gettysburg.edu/screens/genre.html . When I type in the
> word UP in my search box in IE, I get the following info.
>
> http://library.gettysburg.edu/search/X?SEARCH=up&m=g&SORT=D
>
> however when I type in UP in my search box in Firefox v3.6.3, I get this
>
> http://library.gettysburg.edu/search/X?SEARCH=up&image.x=0&image.y=0&ima
> ge=SEARCH&m=g&SORT=D
>
> Can anyone tell me why Firefox is sending the extra data string of
> &image.x=0&image.y=0&image=SEARCH


In terms of the image.x etc. pieces, because that's is how things 
work when you use an image to submit a form:

"When a pointing device is used to click on the image, the form is 
submitted and the click coordinates passed to the server. The x value 
is measured in pixels from the left of the image, and the y value in 
pixels from the top of the image. The submitted data includes 
name.x=x-value and name.y=y-value where "name" is the value of the 
name attribute, and x-value and y-value are the x and y coordinate 
values, respectively."
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#input-control-types

But the reason your search is failing is because your input has a 
name value, which puts it into the search, and the WebPAC sees that 
as a search parameter with which it's unfamiliar:

<input name="image" type="image" value="SEARCH" 
src="/screens/submit.gif" alt="submit" align="middle" width="80" 
height="40" boarder=0>

...which results in &image=SEARCH in the query, which is what's 
breaking things (not the image.x= etc. part).

Easiest fix is to get rid of the name attribute for the image 
input.  Another possibility is to make your DVD search page and form 
more like the music search page.

Bob Duncan


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Lafayette College
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