Sounds like maybe your session is in the URL? 

What if you put the session in a cookie? Then it’s not possible to have 
multiple tabs in the same browser. The last tab wins. 

> On Aug 19, 2024, at 9:25 AM, ocs--- via Webobjects-dev 
> <webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> looks like the main cause of those overlapping R/Rs which we ar clashing with 
> lately is that some users just open their session in more windows or tabs, 
> and work concurrently in those. Sigh.
> 
> It's self-evident why it is a pretty bad idea from the technical POV, but I 
> am afraid we can't explain it to plain users. Worse, if we found a way to 
> prevent that (offhand, I am not sure whether it is technically possible, but 
> even if so), I am afraid the users would complain that they simply insist on 
> this terrible approach.
> 
> Now though they complain some operations are “inexplicably” slow: “I 
> understand that operation A which I've launched in one of my windows is 
> complicated and thus takes many seconds, that's OK. But at the same moment 
> I've launched an operation B in another of my windows; operation B is trivial 
> and should be lightning fast, but it took an eternity! Fix your broken 
> application!“
> 
> Well you twit, op B took an eternity since it first waited many seconds until 
> the slow op A you yourself launched in the same session finished; after that, 
> A took about 100 ms of its own time. But this kind of explanation would not 
> do with plain users at all :(
> 
> Could anybody see any practical solution?
> 
> Note please that making _all_ R/R lightning fast is practically impossible 
> (we would have to refactor too heavily, not an option in a near future). 
> Besides I am afraid even if we somehow succeeded to make all R/R reliably 
> belong a second or so, they would still launch ten second-long operations in 
> ten windows plus one 100 ms in another, and then complain that the last one 
> took seconds too :(
> 
> At this moment about the only solution very ugly work-around I can think of 
> would be to choose a couple of the trivial operations whose speed the users 
> consider most important, and re-write them without session (they would still 
> need to work with the session ID, but important things like the current user 
> etc. would have to be cached in the application in some kind of static map 
> without using the Session instance at all). Sigh. Darn complex, but still 
> worlds easier than attempting to make _all_ R/Rs 100ms-or-less...
> 
> Any better idea?
> 
> Thanks and all the best,
> OC
> 
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