[thelist] bug in ie/nt with post method of form?

Joe Crawford jcrawford at avencom.com
Thu Aug 23 15:19:43 CDT 2001


Judah McAuley wrote:
> At 11:17 AM 8/23/2001 -0700, .jeff wrote:
> >if you notice, the fieldnames variable contains duplicates.  that made me
> >suspect that it was coldfusion.  however, if it was, then why wouldn't they
> >all be doubled?  i'm guessing the duplicates come from the browser sending
> >the same name more than once.  so, somehow some of the fields are being
> >created more than once for this particular user.  i've tested and retested
> >this form here with the same browser/os combination and haven't been able to
> >replicate the problem so it's definitely not a problem with the form itself.
> >
> >anybody have any ideas?  anybody ever seen this before?
> 
> Here's a shot in the dark:  Are they behind a proxy server?  It could be a
> bad configuration or a dirty cache that is submitting some fields multiple
> times.  That's a random guess though.

I've seen some odd stuff happen with partially submitted forms which are
then reloaded - like a half a submit + a submit? Maybe try submitting,
doing a stop, the  n resubmitting to get the effect?

That's another shot in the dark. :-)

Good luck!

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