[ic] More list error

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Dan Bergan (danb at champonline.com):
> Mike Heins wrote:
> 
> >Quoting Dan Bergan (danb at champonline.com):
> > 
> >
> >>If I go back to the previous page, then refresh the page, then click on 
> >>the more links everything will work fine.  So, it seems like the session 
> >>is expiring and the more link is no longer valid. 
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >You have hit it on the head.
> > 
> >
> Phew!  I'm not crazy... I was worried there for a while.  Thanks, Mike!
> 
> I don't feel that I need to give the customer the actual "more" page, 
> but I would like something better than an internal server error.  Is 
> there any way to detect an expired session and then direct them to a 
> "session expired" page where they can start browsing again?

If it is a server error, then we should probably fix this behavior.

> 
> I guess I could just change my apache internal server error page to say 
> that the session has expired and have a link to start browsing the 
> catalog again.  But, would there be a way to keep this within Interchange?
> 

I think what needs be done is to handle this such that it only
returns a search error and not a server error. 

A workaround would be to do in results page:

[if cgi MM]
[and !scratch did_search]
<!-- set error [error name="Search expired" set="Your search has expired."] -->
	[bounce page=error]
[/if]
[set did_search]1[/set]

That should bounce to the error.html page if they are doing a more
and have not done a search in this session.

-- 
Mike Heins
Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting    http://www.perusion.com/
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