Posted by d on 10/17/00 11:38

"Chung Leong" <chernyshevsky@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> thehuby wrote:
>> Is there any way of disabling the repost of information when a user
>> hits the back button?
>>
>> Is the only way to do this to actually use some sort of redirect on the
>> page receiving the initial post (though this won't stop them hitting
>> back twice and possibly reposting will it?)
>
> That's the way to do it. A browser will only put actual pages into the
> history. A POST that doesn't not produce a page, but instead, redirects
> to a GET for presentation will not cause the repost warning. And if the
> new URL matches exactly that of the page containing the form, the
> browser (IE at least), will treat it as though the user has not left
> the page at all.

Exactly. I use this technique all the time, and it works fine on every
browser I've tested it on.

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