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justonce··on Ask HN: Distributed transactions from mobile app to web server
You can't protect against this. Any confirmation messages are subject to the same problem. Look up the FLP paper for proof.

This is really a user interface problem; your user needs to think of a transaction during a network outage as being in an "unknown" state rather than a "succeeded" or "failed" state.