Re: [mv] Netscape suckage and the history usertag

[Chris Rapier <rapier@psc.edu>]

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cfm@maine.com wrote:

> I must have missed something in this thread.  Seems to me there is a lot
> assumed.  Reloading, page caching, and putting orders into the basket
> without visiting the basket page stikes me as a wild mix.  I'd be curious
> to see a short statement of the result you want.

My clients have a site where they sell groceries. They want to allow
people to order something without having to side track to the basket
page. The theory is that if they don't have to bounce back and forth
they'll end up purchasing more and quantity is the key for this site.
Now, since they aren't going to the basket page some indication of what
is in their current cart is needed. So at the top of the page a small
bar is displayed with the number of item and the current total. In order
for this to be updated the page has to be refreshed as the designer
isn't going to use popup windows or frames. 

You can see the site at www.windfallfoods.com. If you are using netscape
add something to the cart, hit the reload button, and then try to add
something else. You'll end up at the basket.html page but if you look at
the URL you'll see it says 'expired'. I ended up making a link between
the basket.html page and one called expired.html so people wouldn't see
an error. If you go back to the results page you'll see the subcategory
heading is also truncated. If you do the same thing under IE you'll see
no problems at all. :\

Mostly, at this point, I'm curious as to why this works under IE and not
under Netscape. I tried switching the order operation from POST to GET
but it was still failing in the same way. 

I'm going to rip apart the history tag to see if that might be doing
anything.
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