{"id":230,"date":"2005-01-14T23:18:12","date_gmt":"2005-01-15T07:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/?p=230"},"modified":"2005-01-14T23:18:12","modified_gmt":"2005-01-15T07:18:12","slug":"where-does-it-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/where-does-it-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Does It Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The usual experience when submitting forms and recieving errors, is that one can click &#8220;Back&#8221; (or, as I most often do, hit my backspace key), and the just-submitted form will still have the info you just submitted entered in, so all you have to do is change the offending field, and resubmit. Take, for example, my comment spam protection idea &#8211; now implemented by <a href=\"http:\/\/deliverator.silverfir.net\">several<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bernzilla.com\">people<\/a>. If  a real human forgets to check the &#8220;I am human&#8221; checkbox, they see a rather blank looking page with the text &#8220;Error: You are inhuman scum!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How dare you insult me, Arcanius!&#8221; They wonder aloud, as they click back (or if they are cool, like me, they use their backspace key), to figure out why I am insulting them. But then &#8211; gasp &#8211; the 15 page comment they meticulously crafted in the small textarea box is gone &#8211; apparently forever.<\/p>\n<p>I have lost more than one comment this way to wordpress. The question is, <em>where does it go<\/em>? Its not just a Firefox thing &#8211; IE looses the comment too. I suspect that it is related to the die() command, but I have no idea why. Or perhaps someone more skilled than I am in the behavior of WordPress, or Web Forms, or something or another, can inform me as to what is really going on here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The usual experience when submitting forms and recieving errors, is that one can click &#8220;Back&#8221; (or, as I most often do, hit my backspace key), and the just-submitted form will still have the info you just submitted entered in, so all you have to do is change the offending field, and resubmit. Take, for example, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}