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iphone sends "GET" instead of "POST" - resulting in empty forms

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christoph2806 06 Oct, 2015
I noticed several emtpy forms (we have required fields, so this should not happen).
A look in the apache access.log shows:

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [06/Oct/2015:07:42:16 +0200] "GET /kontakt/fragebogen?view=form&chronoform=fragebogen_interessent&event=submit HTTP/1.1" 200 5603 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0_6

So it seems that the iphone is sending the forms with GET instead of POST.

What can we do?

Christoph
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GreyHead 06 Oct, 2015
Hi Christoph,

A quick Google doesn't find any reports of the iPhone doing this. So I suspect that what is happening is that some web-bot or virus scanner is scanning the URLs and testing them. The simplest answer is to add a couple of basic server-side validation checks to block empty forms (client side validation relies on JavaScript and so does not block bots with JavaScript disabled).

Bob
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