Time Wasted
Feb. 8th, 2006 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kingandyJust spent two hours trying to track down what appeared to be a perculiar coldfusion error - Paul had noticed certain pages on our server were apparently executing twice, thus spooning the data in the database. There was some hint of other people on the intereweb encountering this same error, lending credence to the "Coldfusion fault" theory. We tried the page in question on different servers. We tried stripping out the superfluous code, leaving only a single, simple statement. We created a dummy page, with only a single statement, in an entirely unrelated application with no commonalities whatsoever. Through all this, the double submission persisted.
Then I created a dummy page, with a single statement, and it did not happen. The information was only inserted once. At this I scratched my head, and tried to look for differences between my page and his. There were none. Commonalities between playground and live server? Very few, all discounted. There was much headscratching.
Then Paul took a look at my dummy page, and announced that it was loading the page twice.
A moment's pause. A brief experiment, invoving both of us looking at that page moments apart. The thought occurs that perhaps the common element here is, in fact, Paul's computer.
Specifically, Paul's web browser.
Paul had the Navibar extension installed in Firefox. Which, as intended, was re-loading each page after Paul visited it with the purpose of building a sitemap.
D'oh!
[EDIT: "submitting" changed to "executing". For correctness.]
Then I created a dummy page, with a single statement, and it did not happen. The information was only inserted once. At this I scratched my head, and tried to look for differences between my page and his. There were none. Commonalities between playground and live server? Very few, all discounted. There was much headscratching.
Then Paul took a look at my dummy page, and announced that it was loading the page twice.
A moment's pause. A brief experiment, invoving both of us looking at that page moments apart. The thought occurs that perhaps the common element here is, in fact, Paul's computer.
Specifically, Paul's web browser.
Paul had the Navibar extension installed in Firefox. Which, as intended, was re-loading each page after Paul visited it with the purpose of building a sitemap.
D'oh!
[EDIT: "submitting" changed to "executing". For correctness.]
