Re: don't click on POSTs too fast

Dan Jacobson <[email protected]> writes:

> I noticed a phenomenon. One begins fetching and soon sees
> in index/lasttime
> * http://..../....cgi?!POST:DWbor...
> and one clicks on it, whereupon one's browser says it is type .cgi,
> and do we want to save to disk? Whereupon we hit cancel, and it even
> disappears from lasttime, as it is interpreted as a browser hangup.

I don't know why this happens, but I would expect that the same
happens for non-POST requests as well.  I don't see anything special
about POST requests.

You could try enabling lock-files so that it won't let you see it
until it has finished downloading.  But you would probably find other
problems with that.

-- 
Andrew.
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