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Re: Resubmitting POSTS (Was Re: Proxies changing POST to GET?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ari Luotonen)
Sat Dec 31 18:38:08 1994
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 1995 00:26:48 +0100
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From: Ari Luotonen <luotonen@neon.mcom.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
> This implies that reloading a page should POST the original data again:
> not such a great idea if a user has just submitted an order and ends up
> making several identical orders.
I think, why would you reload a page unless wanted to resubmit? As
you said, Netscape confirms with the user if it should resubmit.
> Do a GET on the same URL? (broken browsers do this now)
You almost certainly end up with a different document.
> Disable the ability to Reload the page?
Not a bad idea... You could always go back and press Submit if you
wanted to.
Cheers,
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Ari Luotonen http://home.mcom.com/people/ari/
Netscape Communications Corp.
650 Castro Street, Suite 500
Mountain View, CA 94041, USA
