Even if the action= was changed for a form, that wouldn't make using "refresh" behave any differently (at least not in any browsers that I use). It would, however, allow you to reselect and then reactive the displayed URL in order to refresh.

You can't refresh (without resubmitting the form) because the browser doesn't know whether the URL makes sense as something to just GET when it was given in order to POST to, so a sane browser won't GET a URL when requested to refresh a page that was displayed after a POST.

Now, what you suggest is probably a good idea and, if done properly, would probably eliminate some of the many minor glitches like chatting making scratch pad viewer reset (any PerlMonks page that requires more than just node_id= to determine what to display will be "reset" when you submit from that page such as to vote or to chat).

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to (tye)Re: Form actions and browser refresh on PM by tye
in thread Form actions and browser refresh on PM by VSarkiss

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