[imp] Muiltiple copies of same message sent by IMP

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Fredrik Haglund <imp.lists.horde.org at stockholmpride.org>:

> I can find multiple post in the access_log and maillog indicating that
> it the same message is actually posted several times to server from
> the browser.
>
> Is this a correct analysis?
>
> Could it be a "feature" of the browser to try to resend to recover
> from timeouts or network problems? Or is it related to javascript? I
> doubt that the user manages to click on the send button that many times.
>
>
> Main question is: Can IMP (compose.php?) be improved to prevent the
> same message from being sent several times?
>
> Kind regards,
> Fredrik Haglund,
> Sweden
>
>
> access_log:
> 212.151.252.253 - - [26/Apr/2006:22:05:28 +0200] "POST
> /horde/imp/compose.php?uniq=18mqhdmzlmps HTTP/1.1" 200 4995
> "http://webmail.stockholmpride.org/horde/imp/compose.php?
> actionID=reply&index=1005&identity=0&array_index=85&thismailbox=INBOX&uniq=1146081544436" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows   
> NT
> 5.1)"
> 212.151.252.253 - - [26/Apr/2006:22:05:28 +0200] "POST
> /horde/imp/compose.php?uniq=18mqhdmzlmps HTTP/1.1" 200 73
> "http://webmail.stockholmpride.org/horde/imp/compose.php?ac
> tionID=reply&index=1005&identity=0&array_index=85&thismailbox=INBOX&uniq=1146081544436" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows   
> NT
> 5.1)"
> (REPEATED 9 TIEMS - during 2 seconds)

As the problem is originating in the multiple POSTs, the browser or  
proxy is to blame. There is not even a small interval between the  
requests, so it's not the browser trying to resend. It wouldn't do  
that for POSTs anyway.

Jan.

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