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In lugnet.general, Kevin Loch writes:
> You mean it recorded additional votes by hitting reload (without exiting
> browser or clearing cache)? It shouldn't do that.
Ya. I think I just hit the Reload button and it reposted the form.
> It doesn't let you
> vote if you don't get a ballot cookie from the home page (therefore cookies
> are working), and When you vote you get a poll cookie so you can't vote again
> on that poll (unless you dump all cookies). How did you do it?
At some point I turned off new cookies. It might have been after the entry
page, or it might have had the old cookie from earlier.
Hmm, weird. Something else I just noticed. Just now when it gave me the
results page,
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/poll.cgi?poll=4&vote=4
I resized my window wider so I could see the bars, and it increased the Google
number from 10 to 11. I think it was 9 before that. OK, I just resized the
window again, and the Google number changed from 11 to 12. I'm not doing
anything weird here -- just resizing the window. For some reason my browser
appears to be re-fetching the page from the webserver rather than from its
local cache. OK, I told it to accept cookies again, and now it stopped
incrementing -- presumably because it sees the ballot cookie and ignores the
subsequent votes.
--Todd
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| (...) BTW, if you replaced <form method=GET action=/cgi-bin/poll.cgi> with <form method=POST action=/cgi-bin/poll.cgi> then if someone hit the Reload button it would ask them if they wanted to repost the form. That might cut down a bit on accidents. (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) Yea, I noticed Netscape at least does this. I think MSIE does also. It's pretty stupid. Sure, you may have to re-interpret the HTML to do the resize, but there is no good reason to do a re-load. It makes some web sites incredibly painful, get (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) You mean it recorded additional votes by hitting reload (without exiting browser or clearing cache)? It shouldn't do that. It doesn't let you vote if you don't get a ballot cookie from the home page (therefore cookies are working), and When (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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