[ic] Intermediate Order Page

Tue Apr 23 19:17:01 2002

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 05:22:58PM -0500, Ryan Hertz wrote:
> At 02:14 PM 4/23/02 -0700, Orko wrote:
> >We've been seeing some of our users clicking the "Place Order" button,
> >waiting 5-10 seconds, then getting senile and clicking it again.  I know
> >this is a common type of user-braindeadness that is constantly being
> >battled against by web developers, but in our own sites outside of IC
> >we've been able to change the page they are looking at on submission to
> >get by most of the rinse-and-repeat users ;-)
> >
> >Is there a way (without using javascript) to have an intermediate page,
> >like a "Please Wait" type page, between the "Place Order" and receipt?
> >We have occasional Verisign slowdowns that compound this problem, and I
> >would like to see the repeat submittals go down.  Even if there is a way
> >to start writing the next page (Like writing the initial <HTML>
> >immediately after the submit) before talking to Verisign, I could deal
> >with that.
> 
> I've been thinking about implementing a Javascript solution to this 
> problem.  I know you said no JS.  It doesn't occur very often for me, and 
> it is often an insane delay, like 5-15 minutes.  I'm not sure how/why this 
> is even possible -- it seems to me after the checkout is submitted/complete 
> that the cart is emptied.  That is to say I'm not able to reproduce the 
> action.
> 
> I would surmise that even an intermediate page wouldn't solve the problem 
> when a user decides to click back and hit submit again.
> 
> Anyhow, about the question of starting to write the page..  I believe there 
> is an argument you can add to almost any tag to send the output buffer up 
> to that point.  I'm just at a lost of finding it, however.  I'm not sure if 
> it is documented.  :-)

Don't try to send partial buffers, use
an intermediate page.

push @OUT,
        q`[tag op=header interpolate=1]`,
	qq`Content-Type: text/html\n`,
        qq`Refresh: 1; URL=$header`,
        q`[/tag]`;

# YMMV, that is embedded perl for mv4.03

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