From 5d238412ae5006fd69b89fb0a42b130d4f53767f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Franco Fichtner <franco@opnsense.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 17:11:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] www: prepare to die! fix validation code now that issue is
 triggered

PR: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=3824
---
 src/www/guiconfig.inc | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/www/guiconfig.inc b/src/www/guiconfig.inc
index 87058df8b..a9ef1b6cf 100644
--- a/src/www/guiconfig.inc
+++ b/src/www/guiconfig.inc
@@ -168,10 +168,7 @@ function do_input_validation($postdata, $reqdfields, $reqdfieldsn, &$input_error
     }
 
     for ($i = 0; $i < count($reqdfields); $i++) {
-        // why.. do you want to do this? we send data to validate and then validate something else....
-        // can't now for sure if any page uses this wrong behaviour, but it should die eventually.
-        // TODO: kill
-        if (empty($_POST[$reqdfields[$i]]) && empty($_REQUEST[$reqdfields[$i]])) {
+        if (empty($postdata[$reqdfields[$i]])) {
             $input_errors[] = sprintf(gettext("The field %s is required."), $reqdfieldsn[$i]);
         }
     }