If you try to submit a form using method="POST" with target="SOME_IFRAME", the BlackBerry v5.0 Browser will submit the form to the action URL, in the IFRAME, but it won't actually send the form data. That is, Content-Length is 0 when you sniff packets received from the BlackBerry v5.0 Browser. Posting forms to a hidden IFRAME is a very commonly used technique in web applications to prevent the page from changing on form submission, so it's odd that this has been overlooked. This is a regression from BlackBerry v4.7, where there was no such problem submitting forms with a hidden IFRAME.
I was made aware of this problem from a problem reported with my application here. Post #129 has some test examples. It is a µTorrent WebUI application. I've tested this on the following simulators (with BlackBerry_Email_MDS_4.1.4.exe):
- BlackBerry_Simulators_4.6.0.190_9000.exe [WORKING]
- BlackBerry_Simulators_4.7.0.75_9530-Verizon.exe [WORKING]
- BlackBerry_Simulators_5.0.0.228_9700.exe [NOTWORKING]
- BlackBerry_Simulators_5.0.0.252_9500.exe [NOT WORKING]
The user who brought the issue to my attention was using a physical BlackBerry 9000 running OS v5.0.0.314.
Can anybody else confirm?
