Bug 70235 – HTML "POST" method not working

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: WebKitGTK

[Paul]

I've embedded a webkit gtk widget in a GtkLayout and can set the URL and load web pages fine with one exception. Anytime I do a "POST" from a PHP controller inside an ExtJS page, the browser can't find the information. "GET" works just fine, but for some reason the browser is having problems retrieving the "POST" data.

The OS Being used is Ubuntu:

$ apt-cache show libwebkitgtk-3.0-0
Package: libwebkitgtk-3.0-0
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 21820
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[e-mail]>
Original-Maintainer: Debian WebKit Maintainers <[e-mail]>
Architecture: i386
Source: webkit
Version: 1.4.3-0ubuntu3
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.11), libcairo2 (>= 1.10.0), libenchant1c2a (>= 1.6), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.8.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgail-3-0 (>= 3.0.0), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.28.0), libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 (>= 0.10.31), libgstreamer0.10-0 (>= 0.10.31), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0), libicu44 (>= 4.4.1-1), libjpeg62 (>= 6b1), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.33.92), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libx11-6, libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libxrender1, libxslt1.1 (>= 1.1.25), libxt6, libwebkitgtk-3.0-common (>= 1.4.3)
Filename: pool/main/w/webkit/libwebkitgtk-3.0-0_1.4.3-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
Size: 7051868
MD5sum: 83867affbadafd2020e9ca29552eaa14
SHA1: 68d2b1fa5b20ba0a517bd8717088ea48dab13182
SHA256: 967111584d3a04a865e6735f8ff6327dfa9790f1142c1ecd1e3f9630e4266fca
Description-en: Web content engine library for Gtk+
 WebKit is a web content engine, derived from KHTML and KJS from KDE, and
 used primarily in Apple's Safari browser.  It is made to be embedded in
 other applications, such as mail readers, or web browsers.
 .
 It is able to display content such as HTML, SVG, XML, and others. It also
 supports DOM, XMLHttpRequest, XSLT, CSS, Javascript/ECMAscript and more.
 .
 This is the library for embedding in Gtk+ applications.
Homepage: http://webkit.org/
Description-md5: bca91605610edfaf76f763d0f248ab54
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 18m
Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-usb, edubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-usb, xubuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-backend-master, mythbuntu-backend-master, mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-frontend, mythbuntu-frontend, lubuntu-live, ubuntustudio-desktop

[Sergio Villar Senin]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I've embedded a webkit gtk widget in a GtkLayout and can set the URL and load web pages fine with one exception. Anytime I do a "POST" from a PHP controller inside an ExtJS page, the browser can't find the information. "GET" works just fine, but for some reason the browser is having problems retrieving the "POST" data.

Could you explain a little bit what you mean with "browser can't find the information" ? Also, is there any test case you could provide?

[Paul]

I have an Ext JS page that uses the POST method to generate JS from a PHP script. The JS never gets generated, thus, the browser can't render the objects created. If I use GET, in my proxy instead, the JS is rendered, and everything looks fine.

Here's an example of the JS code...

  var language_store = new Ext.data.Store({
    autoLoad: true,
    proxy: new Ext.data.HttpProxy({
      url: 'get_available_languages',
      method: 'POST'
    }),
    reader: new Ext.data.JsonReader({
    }, [
      'LanguageName',
      'LanguageDisplayString',
      'DefaultLanguage',
      'LanguageID',
      'AvailableToMachine'
    ])
  });

This data store is used to populate a combo box with several languages. The information is retrieved from a sqlite database via a PHP controller. When the method is 'POST', it can't get the data. When it's 'GET' the combobox has the information it needs, and renders properly.

As for a test case, I made a very simple test program that created a webkit_gtk widget, embedded it in a Gtk::Window, and loaded a URI. The code example above when coupled with a PHP controller to generate a JSON object will reproduce my problem.

I hope that this is a better description of the problem. Please let me know if you need more information. It would be really nice if I could get this to work.

Thanks,
Paul

(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > I've embedded a webkit gtk widget in a GtkLayout and can set the URL and load web pages fine with one exception. Anytime I do a "POST" from a PHP controller inside an ExtJS page, the browser can't find the information. "GET" works just fine, but for some reason the browser is having problems retrieving the "POST" data.
> 
> Could you explain a little bit what you mean with "browser can't find the information" ? Also, is there any test case you could provide?

[Sergio Villar Senin]

Looks like a bug in your code as POST is working fine right now in WebKitGtk+

[Alberto Garcia]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Looks like a bug in your code as POST is working fine right now in WebKitGtk+

Closing bug, please reopen if it's still relevant.