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icon4.gif   BUG: lost entry data, posted by Rich Persaud on Wed Nov 24 00:17:45 2004 
    icon2.gif   Re: BUG: lost entry data, posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Nov 24 11:52:26 2004 
       icon2.gif   Re: BUG: lost entry data, posted by Rich Persaud on Wed Nov 24 19:05:53 2004 
Message ID: 817     Entry time: Wed Nov 24 19:05:53 2004     In reply to: 813
Icon: Reply  Author: Rich Persaud  Author Email: dev2id@yahoo.com 
Category: Bug report  OS: All  ELOG Version: 2.5.4-6 
Subject: Re: BUG: lost entry data 
> > After THREE tries to enter a long detailed list of questions, all have been 
> > replaced by just one:  why do ELOG textareas and entry forms lose all data 
> > if the browser goes back/forward?  Or if a submission causes an error?  
> > Other forms in other applications don't have this kind of data loss.
> > 
> > Submitting this now before I lose it again.  Will submit rest of questions 
> > as separate entries.
> 
> Really strange. I tried with Mozilla Firefox and IE 6.0 and none of them lost
> the entry data. What browser did you use? As far as I learned, data only
> vanishes on pages which have an HTTP header containing "Expires: ..." with a
> date in the past. But I made sure that the entry form does not contain this.

IE 6.0.   

I am accessing an internal ELOG instance through an Apache reverse proxy on port
80, per the FAQ.  Just tested without the proxy and there is no data loss problem
with back/forward.  

When I access the ELOG forum, I am going through a forward proxy to the Internet,
which probably explains the data loss on error messages.

Will investigate proxy configuration regarding "Expires: " headers and post here
if I find a solution.

> Please refreain in the future from sending many small entries. People being
> registered with email notifications on the forum get flooded by notifications.
> In worst case, write your posting using an editor and do copy-and-paste into a
> single posting.

Sorry about that, will do.
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