for very sensitive posts (ie credit card auth/capture) i
effectively did as mr cobb has recommended. for other
situations i checked the session content and either blindly
over-ride the data (no harm/no foul) or queried the customer
with a "are you sure you want to do this" thingy.
from what i recall, turning off the cache and being careful
to set all the associated headers doesn't help when a customer
hits the back and forward but in succession. net net one
stills needs to perform some transactional integrity checks
dependent upon the transaction at hand.
hope this helps,
- james
"Steven J. Owens" wrote:
>
> > Henry J. Cobb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> > > The best way to "prevent" reposting is to retain the answer to the question.
> > >
> > > The user wishes to make exactly the same booking for the same nights at
> > > the same hotel with the same guests? Well, that's OK, I already know the
> > > results of all that, what happened with his credit card charge and even
> > > what his transaction number is. I don't need to bother the backend at all
> > > to simply redisplay the requested information.
> > >
> > > It's stuff like that that teaches one to separate process from display.
>
> And then I wrote:
> > I'm not sure if you're replying to my post (in the "BACK-ing into
> > trouble" thread) or not. If you are, the above is irrelevant. [...]
>
> On rereading this later in the day, I realize it comes off a bit
> acerbic. That was not my intent, and I apologize if I offended you.
> Perhaps it was just fatigue (or yet-another-meeting-with-the-businessfolk
> syndrome).
>
> I'm finding this quite frustrating, both because this seems like
> it should be such a straightforward thing to do, and because most
> (all?) of the replies I've seen are either "Set the headers to not
> cache" (which I did...) or "why would you do that?".
>
> Steven J. Owens
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