[Catalyst] Catalyst/Internet Explorer strangeness

[Will Hawes]

A couple of corrections:

Will Hawes wrote:
> I've noticed under recent releases that while running under the test 
> server, I get some very strange behaviour from Internet Explorer. When 
> submitting a form via HTTP post, it does one of the following:
> 
> 1) Times out and shows the IE "Cannot find server or DNS error" page.
> 2) Sends the HTTP POST correctly, but then (according to the debug 
> output from the test server) immediately sends a GET request to the same 
> URI it just POSTed to.
> 
> This behaviour goes away when I run the same app under Apache/mod_perl. 
> Everything works fine using both Firefox and Opera under the test server 
> or Apache.
> 
> IE used to work just fine with the test server under 5.33. The problems 
> seem to have started sometime around the upgrade from 5.33 to 5.49_01, 
> although I upgrade quite frequently and am now running 5.56 so it's hard 
> to say.
> 
> Code is along the lines of:
> 
> package My::C::Foo;
> use strict;
> 
> sub edit : Regex('^.*/edit$') {
>   my ( $self, $c, $pk ) = @_;
>   $c->stash->{item} = My::M::Foo->retrieve($pk);
>   $c->stash->{template} = 'edit';
> }
> 
> sub do_edit : Regex('^.*/do_edit$') {
>     my ( $self, $c, $pk ) = @_;
> 
>     my $item = $class->retrieve($pk);

The above line should be My::M::Foo->retrieve($pk);

> 
>     my $validation = {};
>     $validation->{'missing_optional_valid'} = 1;
>     $c->form( $validation );
> 
>     my $results = $c->form;
> 
>     if($results->has_missing or $results->has_invalid) {
>         $c->forward('edit') && return;
>     }
> 
>     $item->update_from_form( $c->form );
>     $c->res->redirect( $c->req->base . $item->moniker . '/edit/' . 
> $item->id );
> }
> 
> 
> Template is very simple also:
> 
> <form action="foo/do_edit" method="post">

Form action should be [% base %]foo/do_edit.

>     <input type="text" name="field1" />
>     ...
>     <input type="submit" value="Save" />
> </form>
> 
> 
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