Re: Re: Problem with form submission and redirect

Hmm, I've never had a problem with a zero second refresh time. I've tested it with IE 5.0 and 5.5; Mozilla 1.0 and 1.1b; and Opera 6.0x.

Hitting the back button twice will solve the problem, but that relies on the end user having the wherewithal to realize they need to do that. I do see how a five second delay with a link should give them an opportunity to hit "back" twice, but I'm not sure I want to rely on anyone's ability to figure that out. Unfortunately.

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•Re: Re: Re: Problem with form submission and redirect by merlyn (Sage) on Aug 26, 2002 at 17:32 UTC
Please do not use the HTML hack for redirect if you're generating the entire response anyway. The HTML hack is merely for those (hopefully rare) situations where only the content of a page is accessible to the content provider. In a CGI situation, this is clearly not the case. I'd suggest studying the `redirect` method of the CGI module. And yes, I'd fail your code in a code review because of that. Red flagged, not permitted to be deployed. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]

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•Re: Re: Re: Problem with form submission and redirect
by merlyn (Sage) on Aug 26, 2002 at 17:32 UTC

not

I'd suggest studying the redirect method of the CGI module.

And yes, I'd fail your code in a code review because of that. Red flagged, not permitted to be deployed.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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