HTML form send data by GET instead POST

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It is very strangely, but my HTML form send data via GET, not POST.

    <form name="mistake" action="http://web-server.com:8888/WebApp/Email/Create" method=post>
  <input type="text" name="url" size="50" readonly="readonly">
          <br />
          <span class="text">
          Error :
          </span>
          <br /> 
          <textarea rows="5" name="mis" cols="37" readonly="readonly"></textarea> 
          <br />
          <span class="text">
          Comment :
          </span>
          <br /> 
          <textarea rows="5" name="comment" cols="37"></textarea> 
          
          <input type="hidden" name="email" value="[email protected]">
          <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Errors">
          <div style="margin-top: 7px"><input type="submit" value="Submit">
          <input onclick="hide()" type="button" value="Close" id="close" name="close"> 
          </div>
</form>

I test it on IE10 with standart options.
HTML form very simple and i write only little example of code.
How to fix it?
Thank you!

P.S. Change URL. This URL web-server.com:8888/WebApp/Email/Create - belongs to asp mvc app.

When i run my web app and ths static site on local machine- it works. But when i runs static page on local machine- and mvc on server- it not works.

P.P.S.- this variant of form- is origine (i cut some tags). Now it is origine.

I dont why, but it works. May be - problem on server side?

Unless you are doing something dynamic with JavaScript, it should use POST. (Also, do make sure to include valid HTML - in this case at least the form closing tag is missing; and a fiddle test-case goes a long way in reproducing the claimed behavior.) — user2864740
– user2864740, Commented Jan 21, 2014 at 11:16
I think something in hide() function avoiding the page from posting. — Bhavesh Kachhadiya
– Bhavesh Kachhadiya, Commented Jan 21, 2014 at 11:23
hide() function defined (i dont know where, but when hide() runs- form closes. — Admiral Land
– Admiral Land, Commented Jan 21, 2014 at 11:23
Is it something similar to this question (I see in your example you are missing </form>):stackoverflow.com/questions/8653893/… — acarlon
– acarlon, Commented Jan 21, 2014 at 11:30

GitaarLAB · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-10 02:13:46Z

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The problem is rather common and the answer quite elusive:

Somewhere in your code you have an orphaned <form>. This means that the next form is nested in the previous one, and its method is ignored. Delete or close the superfluous <form> and you are done.

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:18:07Z

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It should be a post (assuming that you forgot the closing tag only in your example). I added your code and put the closing tag in an html file and submitted in Chrome. This is what I see in the network trace:

enter image description here

Also look at this question in case you are doing the same.

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answered Jan 21, 2014 at 11:23

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user2864740 Over a year ago

I agree with the "should be a post". I believe the OP is hiding something (in hide even).

acarlon Over a year ago

@user2864740 - agree, it is something like that.

eel ghEEz · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-30 03:57:10Z

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A web application framework I am using automatically redirects POST requests for the action URL to the same URL with a trailing slash. HTTP redirection downgrades POST to GET.

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eel ghEEz Over a year ago

@AdmiralLand I forgot how I got a similar puzzle. My trying to reproduce showed the redirection in a contrived example where a flask server route ends with a trailing slash, accepts both GET and POST, and where the client sends a POST request without the trailing slash.

Sam Adams · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-13 00:53:56Z

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I did have the same problem once here what i did: the problem first come when a form is nested inside another one, and its method is ignored.

the solution is pretty simple: Delete or close the superfluous and you're good to go .

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Kade · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-15 15:04:04Z

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This post helped me fix what was causing the issue for me.

If IIS Manager redirects the url, it changes a POST request to a GET request. I had to change the server to re-write the url instead of redirect it.

I also had to enable Application Request Routing in IIS Manager. I followed the instructions in this post.

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sachinsaini · Accepted Answer · 2022-01-15 03:26:30Z

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(In my case, I found some causes.)

There can be many causes two of them are:

If forget to close the form tag.
Written post in a wrong way. i.e. It should be something like this:

<form action="index.php" method="post">

If you write method=post , method ="POST"or method ="Post" then it will not work. Hope it will solve your problem.

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Jez D · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-21 11:21:03Z

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Try method="post" instead of method=post

answered Jan 21, 2014 at 11:21

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user2864740 Over a year ago

It won't make a difference. The quotes are optional around simple HTML attribute values. See w3.org/TR/html-markup/syntax.html#syntax-attributes

Rushyo · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-21 11:21:13Z

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May simply be that your user-agent is ignoring the form method because you haven't put quotes around the attribute.

Try:

 <form name="mistake" action="http://web-server:8888/WebApp/Email/Create" method="post">

answered Jan 21, 2014 at 11:21

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user2864740 Over a year ago

No, it's not. Quotes don't matter around simple HTML attribute values. This is the 3rd time such as been suggested :) See w3.org/TR/html-markup/syntax.html#syntax-attributes

Rushyo Over a year ago

It depends on the user-agent and the form of HTML. It's not a 'given'.

user2864740 Over a year ago

The UA is IE10. Any UA that doesn't accept simple (unquoted) attribute values is not a functioning HTML4/5 UA - even IE6 understands this syntax (which was kept/codified for backwards compatibility, not added as a cool HTML5 feature). And XHTML is not HTML.

Rushyo Over a year ago

The doctype wasn't specified, nor would it have been reasonable for me to assume the doctype was being applied correctly.

user2864740 Over a year ago

None of your comments have been relevant or counter my claims. This answer is wrong.

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