Re: gnats(web) occasionally submits duplicate PRs

[Yngve Svendsen]

Chuck, Jo,

thanks for diagnosing this. The return_url system is complicated and the 
cause of several instances of mysterious behaviour. The mechanisms for 
displaying confirmations, with subsequent redirects, should be 
reengineered at some point, simplifying the return_url stuff at least 
somewhat.

However, that is scheduled for some undetermined future time, and the 
short term fix that I have committed simply consists of removing the 
button bar from the edit and create confirmation pages, as well as error 
pages. That should do it, while hopefully not impacting usability 
significantly.

Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer


Chuck Alexander wrote:
> Some time ago I filed gnatsweb PR 507 describing at least one 
> mechanism by which this can happen. Maybe this is what you're seeing?
>
>    1. File a PR the normal way and submit it. A confirmation page is 
> shown.
>
>    2. On this confirmation page, click the "Create" link at the top of
>    the page. On the new Create page, look at the page source... note
>    the return_url defines the PR filed in step 1.
>
>    3. Fill out the second Create form and submit it. A confirmation
>    page is shown, which after the refresh period submits the
>    "return_url", effectively refiling the first PR and displaying a new
>    confirmation page.
>
> - Chuck
>
> Jo A Wahle wrote:
>
> > My users have reported at least three cases where a PR was submitted 
> > twice. I've captured details about two cases - in one case, the 
> > duplicate's Arrival-Date is more than 5 minutes after the original, 
> > and in one case the duplicate's Arrival-Date is one second later. 
> > We're using gnats 4.1 and gnatsweb 4.00 plus some local enhancements. 
> > The users are certain they did not submit the same information twice, 
> > and they didn't use the Back button and submit the same data again. 
> > Each case involved different users and different categories. I don't 
> > know whether to blame gnatsweb or gnats, and I'm not sure how to 
> > start to investigate this, since I can't re-create the problem. Any 
> > ideas?
> >
> > --
> > Jo Wahle, Software Engineer, Engineering Support, SAIC
> > (Science Applications International Corporation – www.saic.com)
> > Contractor to U.S. Geological Survey – EROS, Sioux Falls SD 57198
> > (Earth Resources Observation and Science – eros.usgs.gov)
> >
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