Stopping double clicking with Perl CGI

[Jesse Vincent]

On May 22, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Chris Jack wrote:

> I thought I'd be a disruptive element in the group and ask a Perl  
> question.
>
> What is the best way of stopping a user double clicking a button in  
> a web page created using Perl CGI? I have written "my first web app"  
> and the logs suggest one user double clicked in well less than a  
> second. I want a programmatic solution rather than browser  
> configuration solution.
>
> It has been suggested to me I could use cookies or a file on the  
> server side - but I am worried about timing issues. I could use  
> semaphores server side or do a radical architecture change to some  
> sort of queued system but this seems overkill. In fact all of this  
> seems overkill for what must really be a common problem requiring a  
> mundane solution.
>

A trivial javascript handler. Really.


> It seems to me that the logical way to do it would be to disable the  
> button when it is pressed, but I haven't found an example of how to  
> do that on the web yet.
>
> Hence I am coming to you lot for inspiration...
>
> TIA
> Chris
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