[Mailman-Developers] Cookie stuff done

[Thomas Wouters]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 03:19:07AM -0700, Dan Mick wrote:
> "Barry A. Warsaw" wrote:

> > Okay, I've gone ahead and checked in all the cookie changes.  Please
> > check out the current CVS tree and let me know how it goes.  If I
> > don't hear any major negatives I'll spin beta5 tomorrow.

> When I log in, if I first go to the "pending requests" page, as is my
> habit, and there's nothing there, I hit the back button...but now I get the
> dreaded "Data Missing

> This document resulted from a POST operation and has expired from the cache. If you wish you can
> repost the form data to recreate the document by pressing the reload button. "

> I realize this is because of the no-cache stuff, but it seems wrong.  Perhaps
> a very-short cache lifetime would be best?...

Or perhaps a 'back' button on the page, instead. Or make the
cookie/login-page not display the wanted page itself, but redirect, so that
you can use 'back' without problems. (The page will then not have resulted
from a POST request, after all.)

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Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>

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