Hello Webform Gurus!

I have a problem with a special setup of webform. The form is setup with a couple text fields, a grid of questions, then some more text fields.

Its designed to be submitted via anonymous and registered users. The "special" part is that I have placed an Apache webserver authentication requirement on the webform URL to restrict access to it using a shared username/password. I am using this method because I could not figure out if theres a way to do that in Drupal. I know the shared login is not a very secure solution but that was mandated by my administration. Trade off between ease of use and security.

Anyways, I started noticing today that we have a couple completely identical submissions. I downloaded the results to a CSV file and found that each result is completely identical except for the Serial and SID fields are different. There was only a couple duplicate entries out of about 15 total.

I checked the php and webserver error logs and did not see anything funny.

Any idea what could be the problem?

Thanks!
- Vince

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quicksketch
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Any chance your users are double-clicking the submit button? Drupal (and webform) do not prevent against duplicate posts. You might try adding a JavaScript script to your site to disable buttons after they have been clicked to prevent such accidents. Other than that, I'm not sure what would cause this.

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vincetingey commented

Our users are fairly tech savy (research doctors) so I don't feel that its a double clicking issue. However, disabling the button once its clicked is a good idea. I don't know how I would integrate that with only the webforms but I can look into it.

Thanks for the quick reply!

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