-----Original Message----- From: Glen Cordrey Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 1:02 PM To: webt...@lists.canoo.com Subject: [Webtest] GETs on hrefs in form when clickbutton

I have a <form that contains 1 field and many href's to Struts .do's, as shown below (yes, there's no need for the href's to be inside the form, but that's how
it is and I can't change it). When I use clickbutton to submit the form (Ant snippet
below) Webtest first does GETs for each of the hrefs in the form, then does the POST.
If I exercise the form manually GETs for the hrefs aren't done, and when Webtest does them failures result because the GETs seem to have thrown off the servlet's
state. So, a couple of questions:

1. Is the Ant snippet correct, or should I be doing something different? 2. Assuming I can't change the form, is there a way for me in Webtest to submit the form, via clickbutton or any other mechnism, without triggering the GETs
that result from the hrefs?

<!-- example of form containing hrefs -->

<form name="myForm" id="queryForm" action="execQuery.do" method="POST"> ... <a href="someAction.do" ... > ... <!-- actual form field and image button --> <input name="queryString" type="text" size="48" value=""
testID="input_queryString"/> <input type="image" name="myButton" id="imgSearch" src="images/local/btn_search.gif" testID="input_image_submitSearch" alt="search"
> .. < href="anotherAction.do" ...? </form>

Ant snippet submitting the form:

<setinputfield stepid="Submit search form" name="queryString" value="congress" /> <clickbutton stepid="exec query" name="myButton"> <form name="myForm" /> </clickbutton>