Re: Re: handling a user pressing browser's back button

On Tue, April 26, 2005 7:02 pm, Matthew Weier O'Phinney said: > 1. Display form on page 1. Page 1 has Cache-Control: no-cache header. > 2. User submits form to page 2 > 3. Page 2 processes form, stores required variables in session, and then > redirects to page 3. > 4. Page 3 displays results (success page, search results, etc.) > > At this point, when you hit the back button, you *should* get to page > 1... which, because of the no-cache header, is forced to reload. Except that if you're fast enough, and can hit the ALT-left_arrow, and then escape fast enough to get to page 2. Or, with some browsers, you can't get "back" to page 1 AT ALL, unless you hit "back" twice rapidly in succession, or use the popup back menu to "skip" the middle page that does the re-direct. I *hate* sites that do this to me! I've even been known to just stop using a site if it annoys me often enough in this regard. YMMV NATAU (Not applicable to all users) -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm