wwwoffle-users  

[WWWOFFLE-Users] don't click on POSTs too fast

Dan Jacobson
Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:34:11 -0800

I noticed a phenomenon. One begins fetching and soon sees
in index/lasttime
* http://..../....cgi?!POST:DWbor...
and one clicks on it, whereupon one's browser says it is type .cgi,
and do we want to save to disk? Whereupon we hit cancel, and it even
disappears from lasttime, as it is interpreted as a browser hangup.

All this because we didn't wait for it to finish downloading before
clicking on it. Post data gone too of course.