I noticed this the other day at http://husted.com/struts/catalog.html
Use the Action Token methods to prevent duplicate submits
There are methods built into the Struts action to generate one-use tokens. A
token is placed in the session when a form is populated and also into the
HTML form as a hidden property. When the form is returned, the token is
validated. If validation fails, then the form has already been submitted,
and the user can be apprised.
- saveToken(request)
- on the return trip,
isTokenValid(request)
resetToken(request)
I am not sure if that is of any help as I have yet to use it ... although I
have just this minute found a case in my own application to do so ;->
Shane
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 19 September 2003 2:16 p.m.
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Refreshing Form Submission and Duplicates
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a question about a bug in my application using a Struts Form.
> This happens in multiple areas of my site, but the one example I will
> use is a Message Board feature. The problem is that when a user goes to
> a list of messages, fills out the form to post a message and ends up
> back on the list page, the message will be submitted twice if they
> refresh the page following the form submission. this has caused
> duplicate messages throughout the message board, as it is the nature of
> message boards to refresh the list of messages often to check for new
> ones. Keep in mind, my app strictly follows the approach of the O'Reilly
> book.
>
> I'll try to make this easy to follow:
>
> 1. the user goes to a message board with a list of messages from other
> users. this page is /messagelist.do the action looks like this:
>
> <action
> path="/messagelist"
> name="messageListForm"
> type="myapp.framework.actions.MessageListAction"
> scope="request">
> <forward name="Success" path="/templates/messagelist.jsp"/>
> </action>
>
> (the "messageListForm" is a struts form bean with a List of message
> objects)
>
> 2. at the bottom of the page is a form to post your own message 3. the
> user enters their Name, Subject and Message Body and submit the form 4.
> the form is processed by a Struts Action. the action tag in
> struts-config.xml looks like this:
>
> <action
> path="/messageinsert"
> name="messageDetailForm"
> type="myapp.framework.actions.MessageInsertAction"
> scope="request"
> validate="false">
> <forward name="Success" path="/messagelist.do"/>
> </action>
>
> - From the naming convention, you can see that the Action inserts the
> message into storage (database) and upon success the user is forwarded
> to the same /messagelist.do action
>
> Now, when the form is submitted and this is displayed, the URL in the
> browser says:
>
> http://myapp.com/myapp/messageinsert.do
>
> I expect that this is correct because the HTML form itself was <form
> action="/messageinsert.do" method="POST">.
>
> The user's submitted message will be found on the list of messages.
> HOWEVER, IF THEY REFRESH THE SCREEN, THE MESSAGE WILL BE SUBMITTED
> AGAIN. This should not happen. If i'm the customer, i've already
> submitted the form, and now i'm seeing a list of messages. refreshing
> should have no effect on the form that i just submitted.
>
> Does anyone have a suggested fix?
>
> Thanks all,
>
> JR
>
>
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