[thelist] urltext, doit and lp

deke web at master.gen.in.us
Sat Sep 14 00:30:01 CDT 2002


Perhaps everybody else already knows about it, but I just noticed that
three extra variables are showing up with every form submitted by MSIE
and Mozilla.

urltext appears to be a duplicate of $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}, so why are
they are sending *that* information?

doit seems to be sending "done" no matter what. A constant variable?

lp may have something to do with the language default chosen by the
browser user. Or maybe not. I'm not sure.

Would anyone care to enlighten me as to what versions of the major
browsers started sending this extra variables, what they are supposed
to tell the webmaster, and why browser builders are sending these
variables in addition to those required by the HTML standard?

Thanks!

deke
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