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[szlamany]

Still having this pop-up message appear?? What's the status of getting this fixed.

I did take a long time entering this post - but I certainly only clicked the "POST QUICK REPLY" button once!!.

Then after a short delay - few seconds - the pop-up appeared.

It's very alarming to see a message like this about "losing your changes" - and feeling that you don't want to click either OK or CANCEL!!!

[techgnome]

Still having this pop-up message appear?? What's the status of getting this fixed.

I did take a long time entering this post - but I certainly only clicked the "POST QUICK REPLY" button once!!.

Then after a short delay - few seconds - the pop-up appeared.

It's very alarming to see a message like this about "losing your changes" - and feeling that you don't want to click either OK or CANCEL!!!

What seems to be happening is this:
When you hit the submit call, there's an AJAX call to send it to the server to be saved... which sometimes takes too long... so some time out is happening causing the page to re-submit itself a second time ... this kicks back to the "You must wait to post again page" ... mean while, for what ever reason, the browser has lost what ever flag it is that says, this has been submitted, so when it gets back the response to go refresh the page, it thinks it is still "dirty" and warns you that navigating away from the page may result in the loss of your data. I wonder if it's the auto save feature kicking in while waiting on the save call... *shrug* At any rate, I've found that hitting the "Leave page" allows it to continue, and usually takes me to the page where I am notified I posted too soon ... the source of some of the double-posts out there... I don't resubmit the post... I jsut back my way out of the thread... and I haven't lost a post yet...

-tg