Re: stopping repeated posts to a Bulletin Board
| From: | Seairth Jacobs | Date: | Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:32:01 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: stopping repeated posts to a Bulletin Board | ||
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"Resarch And Development" <rand@dealante.com> wrote in message
news:B5A492B4-CA44-11D6-B1D6-00039384D098@dealante.com...
> What is the best way to avoid the "repeated comment/post" syndrome
> caused by the user clicking the submit button one too many times
> because he/she did not wait for the browser to return a confirmation
> page or the script took too long to execute.
Assign a unique key to each submission form (as a hiiden field). Once the
form is submitted, you can stop any replays by testing to see if the key was
already used or not.
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Seairth Jacobs
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