Forms with default action wrongly submit to "/"

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3/5
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Issue type
Bug
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Clearly specified
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Tech stack
python
Domain
testing

Research direction

Start at the form-submission/request-building entry point that parses HTML forms and reproduce the minimal method="post" case from the issue. Verify that an omitted action uses the current form URL rather than "/", and add or run coverage for that behavior.

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Description

Eg, a form like:

<form method="post">....

would get parsed out as a form with "/" as action url but instead the current url should be the action url. as per the html5 spec at https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastructure.html#form-submission-algorithm

  1. If action is the empty string, let action be the URL of the form document.
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