A few options:
1. Disable the link after the first click.
2. Show a "spinner" graphic to provide feedback to the user that
something is happening, perhaps with a caption that says
"Processing request..."
These can be done client-side with javascript (jQuery makes it a bit
easier to program).
HTH,
Carl
On 6/28/2011 8:29 AM, Richard Steele wrote:
> How do I handle the following situation?
>
> User clicks a link to a CF page. The page is, for whatever reason, slow to
> respond. User becomes impatient and clicks the same link x number of times in
> secession hoping to get a response from the server. Now there are x multiple
> requests that are slow running. This acerbates the problem as the server has
> now queued up to run the same slow requests multiple times.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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