avoid losing text when text submission timed out?

[james]

Often I have to log in to some web site to enter a few paragraphs of text

(e.g. web email submission, user forum, product reviews, etc). Sometimes it

takes me a while to compose the text, and by the time I click submit, I get

a response saying the session has timed out, and the text that took me a

long time to compose is gone.



Is there a way to retrieve this text? Clicking the back button doesn't work.

Perhaps it is in a cache somewhere?

 

[Leonard Grey]

The portion of the web page containing your text may or may not be in

TIF, but here's what I do: Before I hit the 'Submit' button I copy and

paste the text I wrote to Wordpad or Notepad. Learned that lesson the

hard way. ;-)



It's not the browser's fault that your session timed out, or -- I hate

this -- when you click the Submit button and get a 'server error' message.



Firefox has at least one add-on that saves submitted text; I believe

it's called Lazarus (aptly named). It would be nice if someone would

write a similar add-on for IE.



On a similar topic: Before I get on an internet chat with technical

support, I enter all my questions and possible rejoinders to Wordpad.

That way I know I'll get my point across, and I'm less likely to get

flustered by having to type while they're saying "Is there anything else

I can help you with today?"

---

Leonard Grey

Errare humanum est



james wrote:

> Often I have to log in to some web site to enter a few paragraphs of

> text (e.g. web email submission, user forum, product reviews, etc).

> Sometimes it takes me a while to compose the text, and by the time I

> click submit, I get a response saying the session has timed out, and the

> text that took me a long time to compose is gone.

>

> Is there a way to retrieve this text? Clicking the back button doesn't

> work. Perhaps it is in a cache somewhere?

 

[Jeff Strickland]

Compose yout text with NotePad (START>PROGRAMS>ACCESSORIES>NOTEPAD), then

Select All and Copy, then go to the submission page and Paste.



In answer to your question, no, the stuff you type is gone forever.







"james" wrote in message

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> Often I have to log in to some web site to enter a few paragraphs of text

> (e.g. web email submission, user forum, product reviews, etc). Sometimes

> it takes me a while to compose the text, and by the time I click submit, I

> get a response saying the session has timed out, and the text that took me

> a long time to compose is gone.

>

> Is there a way to retrieve this text? Clicking the back button doesn't

> work. Perhaps it is in a cache somewhere?

 

[Jeff Strickland]

"Leonard Grey" wrote in message

news:u8gtejtvKHA.2436@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

> The portion of the web page containing your text may or may not be in TIF,

> but here's what I do: Before I hit the 'Submit' button I copy and paste

> the text I wrote to Wordpad or Notepad. Learned that lesson the hard way.

> ;-)

>

> It's not the browser's fault that your session timed out, or -- I hate

> this -- when you click the Submit button and get a 'server error' message.

>

> Firefox has at least one add-on that saves submitted text; I believe it's

> called Lazarus (aptly named). It would be nice if someone would write a

> similar add-on for IE.

>

> On a similar topic: Before I get on an internet chat with technical

> support, I enter all my questions and possible rejoinders to Wordpad. That

> way I know I'll get my point across, and I'm less likely to get flustered

> by having to type while they're saying "Is there anything else I can help

> you with today?"

> ---





I _hate_ that! They click Send, and that steals the focus from the Input Box

where I'm typing, and I don't notice until I click Send and a partial

thought gets posted.