Re: Unwanted CGI execution on Refreshing

[MidLifeXis]

The first response is right on the money.

A URL is a handle to some asset accessible from your web site. When you want to modify it, you should be using POST, PUT, or DELETE. GET requests should not modify the asset.

What I typically do is to use POST (when possible, I use PUT and DELETE in a REST methodology), and my response to the POST is a redirect to the GET for the object just modified.

[admiral_grinder]

I agree here, server side redirect is the best way to go. I know this works well for Firefox and Webkit browsers. The browser will not keep the "post" url in its history after a redirect so you can then hit the back and forward buttons all day long. With CGI::Application it only takes less 10 lines with generous whitespace.