72306 - Forms are resubmitted too often!

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 55055

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Fred Goldstein]

When backspacing to a page that contains forms material or that are generated 
in response to a form, Mozilla 0.8 asks me if I want to resubmit the material 
that generated the form.  It never lets me just go back to a form-generated 
page.  This causes HUGE errors!

It works fine if the form-generated page is idempotent, that is, if 
resubmitting the form gets the same results every time.  Web searches are a 
good example.

It blows up BADLY when used for transactions.  On my Internet bank account 
(on dcu.fi1.com) tonight, I entered the form to transfer funds from one account 
to another.  It acknowledged it, and put up a button to go back to the 
balances.  That button actually did a "back".  Mozilla queried me about whether 
I wanted to go ahead and resubmit the form.  I did.  The account-transfer was 
executed AGAIN, causing a DOUBLE transaction! 

LIkewise, while trying to create a user account on a web site, I clicked on the 
"terms of service" which came up on the page just after submitting my user 
info.  I had not yet clicked "accept" to open the account.  I could NOT go 
back! Instead, it insisted on RESUBMITTING the form.  This caused an ERROR on 
the web site, because the name I was registering was already taken!  By me, and 
not verified, and not cancellable -- the name I wanted is now lost!  Then I 
couldn't sign up with a new name (this is a Lycos site) because my ADDRESS and 
personal information were already "in use" -- it spotted me as trying to create 
a duplicate entry.  So I couldn't get in, period.

Netscape 4.x gets this right.  Please BACK OFF on this "favor"!  Thank you.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

dup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55055 ***

Comment 2

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verified dup.