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    <bug>
          <bug_id>16284</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2012-03-09 12:57:16 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>Why must the (form)action attribute be a &quot;valid non-empty URL potentially surrounded by spaces&quot; when the form submission algorithm allows them to be empty, resolving to the document&apos;s address? Shouldn&apos;t they be &quot;Valid URL potentially surrounded by spaces&quot;</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2012-07-18 18:42:12 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>WHATWG</product>
          <component>HTML</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>Other</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>other</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>WORKSFORME</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc>http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#attr-fs-action</bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P3</priority>
          <bug_severity>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>Unsorted</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter>contributor</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Ian &apos;Hixie&apos; Hickson">ian</assigned_to>
          <cc>mike</cc>
    
    <cc>Ms2ger</cc>
          
          <qa_contact>contributor</qa_contact>

      

      

      

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          <long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>65209</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="">contributor</who>
    <bug_when>2012-03-09 12:57:16 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/association-of-controls-and-forms.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#attr-fs-action
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#attr-fs-action

Comment:
Why must the (form)action attribute be a &quot;valid non-empty URL potentially
surrounded by spaces&quot; when the form submission algorithm allows them to be
empty, resolving to the document&apos;s address? Shouldn&apos;t they be &quot;Valid URL
potentially surrounded by spaces&quot;?

Posted from: 2001:4c28:a030:30:35d1:8299:9468:b667
User agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.0; U; en) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.61</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>65231</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Ms2ger">Ms2ger</who>
    <bug_when>2012-03-09 19:55:54 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>You seem not to understand the distinction between author and UA requirements; this is explained it the introduction.</thetext>
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    </bug>

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