Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me with a CGI problem I've been having:
I have two frames on my site. The left frame contains a CGI script (and it's initially called with NO parameters) and the right frame contains an HTML file. There is a button on the right frame that triggers a javascript function that contains the following line: parent.leftFrame.location.href = "cgi-bin/cgifile.cgi?key=32"; i.e. It calls the CGI on the left frame with a few parameters. This CGI script accesses a DBM file and does something similar to $dbm_file[$key]++ Now if the user reloads this page using the reload/refresh button of the browser, the CGI script on the left hand side gets called with the parameters that the javascript function called it with. This has undesirable effect of changing the DBM file. I don't want the DBM file to be changed when the user refreshes the page. i.e. When the user refreshes the page I want the CGI script in the left frame to get called with no parameters. If I put something like this in the javascript function, it works: parent.leftFrame.location.href = "cgi-bin/cgifile.cgi?key=32"; alert('Cause some delay'); parent.rightFrame.location.href = "../../../cgi-bin/orderStatus.cgi"; For some reason I have to insert an alert box to cause some delay between the invokation of these CGI scripts, otherwise it doesn't work. Does anyone have any idea how I should solve this problem? It would have been nice if the above would work without the alert box. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jack ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]