SPUG: repeatedly hitting submit button

[Terry Nightingale]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, jeff wrote:

> what happens when the user repeatedly hits the submit button on a form
> that is handled by a cgi script?
> 
> does the browser ignore the click or does it fire off additional cgi
> responses?
> 

To the best of my understanding, it's browser-specific.  Most browsers cancel
the current HTTP request (if any) and initiate a new HTTP request each time a
submit button is pressed.  

It may be of interest to note that the server-side handling is server-specific
as well.  A well-behaved server will kill the CGI process when the first request
is cancelled, and spawn a new CGI process to handle the additional request.

Hope this helps...


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Terry Nightingale <tnight at ironworx.com>
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