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Re: Netscape 6 Uglyness (was: Re: Filtering out Bionicle/Slizer/Roboriders posts)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 2 Feb 2001 23:24:00 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Eric Kingsley writes:
> This may be more of an FYI but I thought I ought to mention it.
Good thought! Thanks for mentioning this problem!!!
> I recently Installed Netscape 6 and have been posting without a problem
> for a couple of days now. Today this message was posted as a duplicate
> doing something I have done with Netscape 4.7 without a problem in the
> past.
>
> What I did was I posted the origional message then I used the "Back"
> button to go back to news.lugnet.com. I then, being my paranoid self
> forgot if I had clicked post after previewing the message (this has
> bitten me more than once), Clicked "Forward" to see the message
> confirmation page. Doing this seems to have resubmitted the post using
> Netscape 6 where doing the same thing in Netscape 4.7 did not result in
> a duplicate post.
Eeek! -- that's worse than any accidental double-posting thing that MSIE
ever did. It resubmitted the form without asking you whether you wanted
to resubmit? Yikes!!
Say, by chance do you have your cache disabled? I might have the HTTP
headers set wrong (missing cache pragma stamps)... But even in that case,
it still shouldn't resubmit a form without first asking you.
Let's see...this is pretty serious. And I apologize for the server not
automatically detecting a duplicate form submission. Mishaps like this
have been allowed to happen for too long. To work around this (apparent)
browser bug, I'll need to have the posting submission page check incoming
data against a store of recently posted messages to check for duplicates,
and then give a friendly "oops" message instead of creating a double-posting.
That will solve the old problem of actually clicking the Post button twice
too (when someone does this by accident or when they've forgotten that
they've already clicked it, and click it again on purpose).
--Todd
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