In answer to your general question, which I will rephrase as:

I've got a form-->CGI scenario; let there be no re-entry of the same data.

There are a number of things to consider.

* What defines an invalid resubmission? Never twice by the same user? Never twice by the same machine/browser? (cookies come into play here) Never twice within 2 seconds /2 minutes / 2 hours? Perhaps one of the submitted fields can't be a duplicate?

Any of the above ideas are the basis for a code-based solution for distinguishing valid submisssions.

* If you do end up having the CGI set a cookie to indicate that this browser has submitted this form you'll run into a number of limitations. Cookies can be deleted due to space considerations. Your cookie won't be set prior to a user being able to click the submit button again (and again, and again).

One idea to help prevent users from clicking a submit button multiple times is to have a javascript function hide the submit button and message the user (Processing...) after the first submission. Your CGI would continue to work as needed.

A working example to put in your HTML:

you can use this Javascript and this code snippet below, using the onsubmit attribute of the form tag. 

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function submitForm() {
    document.getElementById('submit').value = "Please Wait...";
    document.getElementById('submit').disabled = "disabled";
    return true;
}
//-->
</script>

<form method="post" action="login.asp" onsubmit="submitForm();">
    <input type="text" id="price" name="price"><br>
    ...
    <input id="submit" name="submit" type="submit" value="Send data">
</form>

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Monks:
Please don't flame me for not addressing this in perl. I'm not aware of any client-side perl and this particular problem needs to be addressed on the client-side.

Cheers

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In reply to Re: CGI Cookie by freddo411
in thread CGI Cookie by rupesh

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