HTML::Form - work around checked="" and selected="" [patch] [rt.cpan.org #43341]

[oalders]

Migrated from rt.cpan.org#43341 (status was 'open')

Requestors:

• perl@events.soundwave.net

Attachments:

• html-form-accept-empty-selected-checked.diff

From perl@events.soundwave.net on 2009-02-17 02:41:16:

One application I'm using WWW::Mechanize against sends out form elements
like the following:

<option ... SELECTED="" />

<input type="checkbox" ... CHECKED="" />

HTML::Form parses those as being not selected and not checked, which is
not what the application intended.  (The application may very well be
wrong, but it works on popular browsers..)

This patch makes HTML::Form parse those the same way as the popular
browsers.

From ether@cpan.org on 2017-01-25 21:37:26:

migrated queue: libwww-perl -> WWW-Mechanize

[simbabque]

We should double-check the HTML spec for this.