RE: Purchased cart being overwritten
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1997
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numero = 13193
interpreted = N
texte = Rob ->On a store I am just completing, when the customer clicks purchase after >entering his credit card info a thankyou.tmpl page is returned and the cart >file is transferred to the Orders folder. A context on the top of the >thankyou.tmpl logs the order into an orders database from which the order >can then be managed. >After performing a purchase, I backed up in my browser, both IE and >Netscape to a shopping page. Admittedly my cart was empty but the same cart >number was in the url. I then continued shopping, and another cart file was >generated with the same number as the previous one (now residing in the >Orders folder). I then shopped around and concluded my purchase and this >new cart was then transferred to the orders folder and overwrote the >earlier one. This is a serious problem which could cause a serious loss if >someone did this. Can anyone point me to a solution for this?If you are worried about people backing up this far and reordering, you can just use some [showif] checks to present them with a message that this cart has already been submitted, and give them a $newcart link instead of allowing them to shop with that cart again. You could either use [showif] in conjunction with [listfiles] to check for the existence of that cart in the Orders folder, or, more conveniently (since you already have the orders database set up) you can do a [lookup] in your orders database to see if that cart number has already been ordered.Alternatively, you could make all links between pages form buttons using METHOD=POST; this wouldn't prevent them from backing up and using the same cart, but it would make it more difficult.I hope this helps,Marc Eagle StarNine Technologies http://www.smithmicro.com/
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Rob ->On a store I am just completing, when the customer clicks purchase after >entering his credit card info a thankyou.tmpl page is returned and the cart >file is transferred to the Orders folder. A context on the top of the >thankyou.tmpl logs the order into an orders database from which the order >can then be managed. >After performing a purchase, I backed up in my browser, both IE and >Netscape to a shopping page. Admittedly my cart was empty but the same cart >number was in the url. I then continued shopping, and another cart file was >generated with the same number as the previous one (now residing in the >Orders folder). I then shopped around and concluded my purchase and this >new cart was then transferred to the orders folder and overwrote the >earlier one. This is a serious problem which could cause a serious loss if >someone did this. Can anyone point me to a solution for this?If you are worried about people backing up this far and reordering, you can just use some
[showif] checks to present them with a message that this cart has already been submitted, and give them a $newcart link instead of allowing them to shop with that cart again. You could either use
[showif] in conjunction with
[listfiles] to check for the existence of that cart in the Orders folder, or, more conveniently (since you already have the orders database set up) you can do a
[lookup] in your orders database to see if that cart number has already been ordered.Alternatively, you could make all links between pages form buttons using METHOD=POST; this wouldn't prevent them from backing up and using the same cart, but it would make it more difficult.I hope this helps,Marc Eagle StarNine Technologies http://www.smithmicro.com/
Marc Eagle
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