Searches using GET instead of POST


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Admins: Could you make the forum search (https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?&act=Search&f=19) and the news search (https://www.neowin.net/search.php) use the GET method for submitting instead of POST? I want to write a Firefox search plugin for both of those.

Also, the front page search box (under My Neowin) has been broken since the site went down for a week last year. When you type in a search and press Enter, it goes to the search page (https://www.neowin.net/search.php) instead of the search results page. You have to re-enter your search and press Enter on the search page to get to the results.

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I already made the plugin for Firefox: https://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=1791...ware&highlight=

The forum search is a bit tricky because the current IPB version doesn't support the GET method. I then decided to write a script that would re-submit the form using POST method so bare in mind that because of this, the forum search can be slow.

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I already made the plugin for Firefox: https://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=1791...ware&highlight=

The forum search is a bit tricky because the current IPB version doesn't support the GET method. I then decided to write a script that would re-submit the form using POST method so bare in mind that because of this, the forum search can be slow.

O cool, I didn't know about that!

Why not just change the searches to use GET though?

don't bump

Do you always have to be like that? :rofl:

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