Multiple postings by me

I don't know why I keep getting multiple blank nodes. Perhaps it's the way I use perlmonks.

I read perlmonks by going to the "newest nodes" page. I pop up what I think are the right number of days since I've last been here (too bad perlmonks doesn't remember to just pop it up for me (nudge nudge)).

I then look for an interesting item: if I see it, I pop up the link in a new window (so that the "newest nodes" window stays active, because it takes too friggin long to resend down my connection). I reply to that if I'm interested, and boom, multiple replies!

Now watch--this will probably generate multiple hits too. :)

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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RE: Multiple postings by me by chromatic (Archbishop) on May 14, 2000 at 22:18 UTC
I just did what you describe in Netscape 4.7 on my Linux box. No multiples. I have noticed that if you hit the 'comment on' link, the first form that pops up actually creates the writeup. If you return to that first screen and hit the submit button again, it will create another. (There's a hidden field named op set to new for only that page.) On all pages generated after that first submit, not only do they use POST instead of GET, but there's no op set. If you hit submit multiple times, it'll presumably do the same -- I don't think the 'duplicate node creation' thing is fixed in the latest tarball.	[reply]
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RE: Multiple postings by me by Russ (Deacon) on May 15, 2000 at 06:37 UTC
I have managed to create multiple postings by going "Back" and "Forward" (usually to cut-and-paste from some other post). <THEORY> With my cache settings altered (for purposes of debugging my CGI sites), Netscrape may be generating multiple POSTs, rather than caching the form I see. </THEORY> Russ	[reply]