From: Ann Barcomb
Date: 15:55 on 05 Sep 2003
Subject: More Mozilla
When trying to view the source of a page which results from a form
submission, a handy little warning pops up:
The page you are trying to view contains POSTDATA that has expired from
cache. If you resend the data, any action the form carried out (such as
a search or online purchase) will be repeated. To resend the data, click
OK. Otherwise, click Cancel.
It's the same warning you see if you try to reload the page, or sometimes
go back to it. And it is true. I checked the web server logs, and view
source really is generating an additional hit. You would think they would
consider caching the result unrendered at least long enough to allow the
page to be viewed, given the consequences of resubmission.
The offending software is
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1)
Gecko/20021130, build 2002113015
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 18:23 on 05 Sep 2003 Subject: Re: More Mozilla > The page you are trying to view contains POSTDATA that has expired from > cache. If you resend the data, any action the form carried out (such as > a search or online purchase) will be repeated. To resend the data, click > OK. Otherwise, click Cancel. First, WTF does "POSTDATA that has expired from cache" really mean? The data you posted hasn't expired or else they wouldn't be able to resend it. Does this mean "The page you are trying to view is the result of a POST, and the result has expired from the cache...". And why does it expire if a gnat farts within three meters? Is this the expiry time provided by the server? If so, let's keep it around anyway and put this on the screen: The page you are trying to view is the result of a POST that has been expired by the server. If you resend blah blah blah. To resend the data click OK. To view the (expired) page from the local cache, click DIRTYLAUNDRY. Otherwise, click Cancel.
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