| Subject: | HTML::Form and unknown input types. |
Perl version: v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
libwww-perl version: 5.69
OS: Linux 2.4.22 on Debian (testing dist)
In HTML::Form's push_input function, if an input field's type is not known, the type defaults to HTML::Form::IgnoreInput and warns if $^W is true. This behavior seems fine when the module user is constructing objects directly, but is difficult to accommodate when the HTML::Forms are being generated from parsed HTML. When the form is generated from parsed HTML it would be much easier if there was a class such as an "HTML::Form::UnknownInput" that did not silently ignore ->value($new_value) method calls.
<form action="login.cgi" method="POST">
USER:<input type="textfield" name="user"><br>
PASS:<input type="password" name="pass"><br>
<input type="submit" value="login" name="l">
</form>
In all the web browsers I can find the "textfield" type and in fact any unknown type is treated as type "text", so possibly simply defaulting to HTML::Form::TextInput would be more convenient for most users.