Re: comments.py change request.
Ryan Barrett <pyblosxom-6sb6M7qyT/[email protected]>
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Blake Winton wrote: > She entered a comment, and then hit refresh on the page, and the same > comment was entered again. hi blake! yeah, that's true. post-redirect-get is a great solution, and we could definitely implement it in comments.py. having said that, i'm not sure how high a priority it would be. all modern browsers warn you loudly when you refresh a page rendered from a POST. you have to click "OK" before the browser will re-send the POST. many e-commerce sites depend on this to prevent duplicate transactions, along with their own (inelegant) countermeasures. also, ajax commenting (in contrib pack 1.3.3) prevents this. refreshing immediately after posting a comment doesn't cause a duplicate comment. -Ryan -- http://snarfed.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV