Re: Sessions/Browser back button

Or if you use GET in your forms, instead of POST, you won't have this problem. ---John Holmes... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin French" <justin@indent.com.au> To: "Craig" <craig@phirus.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 8:15 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Sessions/Browser back button > on 26/11/02 12:03 AM, Craig (craig@phirus.com) wrote: > > > I remember seeing threads debating this before, but is there anyway to > > disable/prevent a user from heading back in the browser and getting the > > "WARNING: Page has Expired" notice? > > This is more like a diversion around the problem... It will either be > relevant to your problem, or not :) > > In particular, I use this to prevent people from refreshing their page (and > hence adding something to the DB twice for example). > > Lets say you have form.php, which submits to process.php... the aim is to > have process.php as a server-only script (ie, nothing is sent to the > browser), with a header() redirect to a thankyou.php page once I've added > stuff to the DB, or whatever.... > > The point is, they'll never see a page expired message in this case, because > the script receiving the POST information never gets to the browser. > > > This may or may not help, depending on your problem :) > > > Justin French > -------------------- > http://Indent.com.au > Web Development & > Graphic Design > -------------------- > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >