Re: Resubmitting POSTS (Was Re: Proxies changing POST to GET?)

Ari Luotonen (luotonen@neon.mcom.com)
Sun, 1 Jan 1995 00:25:59 +0100

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> 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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