Re: Help with Repost Data msg from form

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 13027
interpreted = N
texte = >The problem is that Netscape 2 & 3 under Windows 95 on a PC is sometimes >throwing up this Repost Form Data? message box when the customer submits >ANY form. It doesn't matter if it is a $search or a $add, they can still get >the message box. The worst case is if they then go and select OK to the >message box after a $add to cart it results in a second identical entry >incorrectly added. However, the message box at any time after submitting any >form is unacceptable.What does your form ACTION look like? Can you give us a sequence thru your site that leads to this problem? I'm guessing the browser is tricking itself into thinking that the identical URL is being posted. My best-guess workaround is to change those forms to method=GET so that you give the browser more of a 'hint' as to the fact that the URL is indeed radically different.>The forms are working OK on other browsers and on other platforms. This >might be a PC Netscape thing with WebCatalog CGI but we NEED to get around >it somehow ASAP. It's completely independent of WebCatalog. This problem is entirely inside the browser, and in fact occurs before the CGI (or any other CGI, for that matter) ever receives the data.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ===== Tools for WebWarriors ===== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog Pro, WebCommerce Solution 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, SiteCheck, PhotoMaster San Diego, CA 92128 | SiteGuard 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Help with Repost Data msg from form (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  2. Re: Help with Repost Data msg from form (Caius Hawkins 1997)
  3. Re: Help with Repost Data msg from form (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  4. Re: Help with Repost Data msg from form (Caius Hawkins 1997)
  5. Re: Help with Repost Data msg from form (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  6. Help with Repost Data msg from form (Caius Hawkins 1997)
>The problem is that Netscape 2 & 3 under Windows 95 on a PC is sometimes >throwing up this Repost Form Data? message box when the customer submits >ANY form. It doesn't matter if it is a $search or a $add, they can still get >the message box. The worst case is if they then go and select OK to the >message box after a $add to cart it results in a second identical entry >incorrectly added. However, the message box at any time after submitting any >form is unacceptable.What does your form ACTION look like? Can you give us a sequence thru your site that leads to this problem? I'm guessing the browser is tricking itself into thinking that the identical URL is being posted. My best-guess workaround is to change those forms to method=GET so that you give the browser more of a 'hint' as to the fact that the URL is indeed radically different.>The forms are working OK on other browsers and on other platforms. This >might be a PC Netscape thing with WebCatalog CGI but we NEED to get around >it somehow ASAP. It's completely independent of WebCatalog. This problem is entirely inside the browser, and in fact occurs before the CGI (or any other CGI, for that matter) ever receives the data.Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ===== Tools for WebWarriors ===== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog Pro, WebCommerce Solution 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, SiteCheck, PhotoMaster San Diego, CA 92128 | SiteGuard 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com Grant Hulbert

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