[Zope] Textarea changes vanishing... my bad, or is IE evil?

[Jonathan Hobbs]

If you are using something like apache in front of zope is it possible that
the page is being served up from the 'apache' cache?

If you think the problem is with the browser have you embedded the html meta
tags in the form that cause the browser to expire the page immediately (this
works for us and we use IE).  Alternatively, someone in this list mentioned
that they had better luck 'expiring' pages by setting the header parameters
directly instead of the html meta tags.


Jonathan



----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Winkler" <pw_lists at slinkp.com>
To: <zope at zope.org>
Sent: August 3, 2004 6:09 PM
Subject: [Zope] Textarea changes vanishing... my bad, or is IE evil?


> Sorry for borderline-off-topic posting, but I'd like to see if
> anyone else in zope-land is observing this behavior...
>
> Some of my zope users have been complaining recently that
> their edits mysteriously vanish. Today we came up with
> a consistently reproducible case:
> 1. go to any page template... let's call it my_template
> 2. make some changes and submit
> 3. navigate to somewhere else
> 4. navigate back to my_template's edit form
>    (not using the back button, but i don't know if that matters).
>    Now the textarea shows the text as it was
>    at step 1, when it should show the text as it was after step 2.
>
> At this point, if you hit refresh, your changes from step 2 show up
> and all is good. But if you forget to do so, you'll be editing
> stale text and wiping out the work you did in step 2.
>
> Changing the Internet Options settings does not help... we've all
> got it set to check for new versions every time.
>
> The reason I am suspicious of IE is that I cannot reproduce the
> bad behavior with any mozilla-based browser that I've tried
> (firefox/linux, mozilla 1.5/linux, netscape 7.1 / w2k).
>
> We've only seen this for a few weeks so I'm wondering if it could
> be part of a windows update IE fix.
>
> But the really maddenign thing is that now I can't
> reproduce the behavior on a fresh zope 2.7.0 instance.
>
> Sigh...  maybe I just have some bad AcceleratedHTTPCacheManager settings
> somewhere but I really can't find anything suspicious so far.
> Any other ideas, anyone?
>
> --
>
> Paul Winkler
> http://www.slinkp.com
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