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List:       apache-modperl
Subject:    Re: how to prevent ie ( et al ) from resubmitting POST info
From:       tom () grubby ! net
Date:       2001-03-29 18:22:59
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Aha! I knew I should have stopped taxing my brain about this one long ago!
The answer is simple: when your head hurts, ask the list.

Thanks very much.

On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:17:24AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 tom@grubby.net wrote:
> 
> > Anyone have any tricks up their sleeve to prevent the following:
> > IE, on opening a new browser windows, or on revisiting through history a
> > page which submitted some post data, will re-post that data,
> > which causes me problems, as POST triggers my music player window,
> > with a random mix from the post parameters.
> > Netscape does this too, but only on reload.
> >
> > It's tricky to have a flag disallowing reposts, because it's hard to
> > differentiate between an accidental one and a real one.
> >
> > I guess I'm just wondering if anyone has thought hard about this here.
> 
> You oculd put a one-time key in the form values.

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we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to
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