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Keep form data after back button (when CAPTCHA typo / session expired)

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Closed
Subject
Keep form data after back button (when CAPTCHA typo / session expired)
Version
1.9.x
Category
  • Error
  • Usability
  • Feature request
  • Less than 30-minutes fix
Feature
Wiki (page view, edit, history, rename, etc)
All / Undefined
User Administration (Registration, Login & Banning)
Accessibility
Lost edit protection
Submitted by
homunq
Volunteered to solve
homunq
Lastmod by
Pascal St-Jean
Rating
(0)
Description

If you're editing a page and you fail the CAPTCHA or your session expires, your whole edit is lost. Most users expect their browser to have saved the form data, many would know enough to log back in then hit the back button to get back to the form (or at least, hit "back" and copy the data for later pasting after login). This does not work - after a "back" the form is empty!

I'm ranking this bug as priority 7 because it is very serious - data loss and angry users. I think the solution is trivial, too: see below.

Solution

Here's a page on how they fixed this on drupal. Trivial!:

http://drupal.org/node/109941external link

Another, even better solution would mean keeping the user's data for them, giving them a login, then sending them back to the form with the data filled back in for them. Or at least, giving them the data on the error page with instruction on how to copy/paste:

http://codingforums.com/archive/index.php?t-45667.htmlexternal link

Importance
7
Easy to solve?
8
Priority
56
Demonstrate Bug on Tiki 19+
Demonstrate Bug (older Tiki versions)
Ticket ID
1047
Created
Thursday 05 April, 2007 05:58:31 UTC
by Unknown
LastModif
Friday 15 January, 2010 17:48:45 UTC


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