Is it possible they had two windows open on the same form? Passing the session to accepts(...) uses a mechanism to prevent double form submission that assume once a form is open, it is only opened one (within the session) until it is submitted.
On Sep 13, 11:34 pm, Lennon <lpru...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I have a few forms in a web2py shopping cart that I built from > scratch. Most of the time the forms are working fine but once in > awhile on submission a form will neither submit and redirect to the > next page of the cart nor return any form errors as it usually does > when there is a form error. > > Instead it simply refreshes the page and clears the form. What's > really frustrating about this bug is that the same user will have this > bug and when they try again with the same browser and same data it > will work fine. > > In fact, none of my team has been able to reproduce it but three of > our users have reported it so I'm inclined to think something is > wrong. > > One thing the forms all in common is that they all add session as an > argument for form.accepts: > > if form.accepts(request.vars, session): > > Perhaps if something was screwy in my session it might cause this > behavior? Although when I looked in the gluon/sqlhtml web2py file it > didn't seem to use session for much of anything. > > The various forms and models are all very long so before posting all > of that code, I was wondering if anybody simply had some thoughts on > what might be causing this and/or could point me in the right > direction. > > I'll be happy to post any part of the code that would help shed some > light on the matter. Let me know, thanks.
