There's a much better way that is less falliable to problems/hacking on the user's end: include a uniqueid in a hidden field on the form, and sort a list of these uniqueid's in a second table when they are created. Upon submission of a form, remove that unique id from the table if it's there and process the form normally, otherwise, tell the user they've already submitted their data and move on elsewhere.

You can sufficently munge data into this uniqueid such as the localtime on your server, user id, random numbers, etc, if you want to reduce the chance of someone faking a request to your server.

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In reply to Re: Re: WHAT?!? No "back" button?? I just gotta hear the reason for this one... by Masem
in thread Page expiration with unsynchronized clocks by zakzebrowski

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