Closed Bug 72306 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Forms are resubmitted too often!

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

x86
Windows 98
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 55055

People

(Reporter: fgoldstein, Assigned: rods)

Details

When backspacing to a page that contains forms material or that are generated in response to a form, Mozilla 0.8 asks me if I want to resubmit the material that generated the form. It never lets me just go back to a form-generated page. This causes HUGE errors! It works fine if the form-generated page is idempotent, that is, if resubmitting the form gets the same results every time. Web searches are a good example. It blows up BADLY when used for transactions. On my Internet bank account (on dcu.fi1.com) tonight, I entered the form to transfer funds from one account to another. It acknowledged it, and put up a button to go back to the balances. That button actually did a "back". Mozilla queried me about whether I wanted to go ahead and resubmit the form. I did. The account-transfer was executed AGAIN, causing a DOUBLE transaction! LIkewise, while trying to create a user account on a web site, I clicked on the "terms of service" which came up on the page just after submitting my user info. I had not yet clicked "accept" to open the account. I could NOT go back! Instead, it insisted on RESUBMITTING the form. This caused an ERROR on the web site, because the name I was registering was already taken! By me, and not verified, and not cancellable -- the name I wanted is now lost! Then I couldn't sign up with a new name (this is a Lycos site) because my ADDRESS and personal information were already "in use" -- it spotted me as trying to create a duplicate entry. So I couldn't get in, period. Netscape 4.x gets this right. Please BACK OFF on this "favor"! Thank you.
dup *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55055 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
verified dup.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: HTML: Form Submission → DOM: Core & HTML
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