Booyah! That did it. Thanks loads James. Any idea why FF doesn't do it too? Think it's just some sort of setting in the browser?
<!----------------//------ andy matthews web developer certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --------------//---------> -----Original Message----- From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 9:52 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Mysterious SESSION variable behaviour It's caching, most likely. Your copy of IE will be set to check for new pages "automatically" which is MS speak for "in a broken fashion" so it doesn't work well; however it is the default and it's what many of your visitors will have set. Use no-cache headers to stop this: <cfheader name="Pragma" value="no-cache"> <cfheader name="Cache-Control" value="no-cache"> On 7/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.commadelimited.com/recipes/ > > I've got a cookbook application I'm building. It allows the user to browse > recipes, then add them to their "grocery list". When the "add to grocery list" > button is clicked, it appends the ID for that recipe to SESSION.grocerylist. It > then runs a js function which runs a query against the database using the > contents of the SESSION variable as an IN statement. The long and short of it > is that when you "add to grocery list", the recipe should save to the SESSION > var and show up in the bottom left corner. > > So it does this...sort of. In Firefox it works perfectly, but in IE, the grocery > list gets "forgotten" until you add another item. Try it...add a recipe and it > shows up just fine. BUT, refresh the page and it disappears until you add > another recipe at which time you'll see both, until you refresh the page > again. > > I suspect it has something to do with the fact that the current page never gets > submitted but I'm not sure. I've tried everything I can think of but can't come > up with an ideal solution. > > My next step would be to create a lookup table in the database and store the > session id and the recipe id. Then I could use that instead of the session > variables. I'm not certain that would work either as the site works just fine > in Firefox. > > Anyone have input or ideas? I'd really love to hear them. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:247484 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
