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When trying to view the source of a page which results from a form
submission, a handy little warning pops up:
The page you are trying to view contains POSTDATA that has expired from
cache. If you resend the data, any action the form carried out (such as
a search or online purchase) will be repeated. To resend the data, click
OK. Otherwise, click Cancel.
It's the same warning you see if you try to reload the page, or sometimes
go back to it. And it is true. I checked the web server logs, and view
source really is generating an additional hit. You would think they would
consider caching the result unrendered at least long enough to allow the
page to be viewed, given the consequences of resubmission.
The offending software is
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1)
Gecko/20021130, build 2002113015
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