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Originally Posted by SVTOA

I hadn't had this happen to me then last night it did it to me several times. I am on a very fast PC and a very fast connection. I can't seem to point to any one issue, it just "happens" with no rhyme or reason. My members want me to revert to the old version...

Are we sure that a previous version didn't have that issue? Which version was stable?

One more element, the bug happens with other versions of Windoze as well, like 98. The common denominator seems to be Internet Explorer 6.

UPDATE

OK, after hours spend with one of my users, we have found the following:

A user is typing a message and hits Post when at the bottom of the browser it says "Opening page ...." (that is happening when the client is refreshing the page). The user hits Post while at the bottom, it still says "Opening page....". Then he continues to type something WITHOUT CLICKING AGAIN INSIDE THE POST MESSAGE BOX. Whatever he types now, gets send to the server, a few letters at a time. Some letters are even lost. The user can see what he is typing.

The user I was testing with, was on a dial-up connection, so the 8 sec refresh is kind of too much for him, there are greater chances of hitting post during the "Opening page" phase.

IE5 is doing the same thing, only a little differently. If you hit the Post while the browser is in Opening page, and then you continue to type, WITHOUT CLICKING WITH YOUR CURSOR IN THE POST MESSAGE BOX, you can hear the post button being pressed and see it being pressed as you type. The difference is that with IE5, you DO NOT SEE the words you type, while with IE6, the user can see the words he types. Also, with IE5, what you type is not going to the server (hense no words are slit and send as messages), while with IE6 it is send to the server. If you stop typing and click inside the post message box and start typing again, it returns to normal.

To recap:

- The bug starts when the user hits Post (or Enter) when the browser is in the "Opening page...." condition. Whatever he types after that, is spilled out to the server, in random chunks.
- The bug does not occur if the user clicks inside the Post Message box before starting typing again.
- The bug stops if the user clicks inside the Post Message box and continues typing.

There you go folks, I hope this helps. We can now recreate it at wish, at least in my board.