Re: Clear POST variables

On Thu, February 16, 2006 9:15 am, John Wells wrote: > I'm curious to hear what others say, but I tend to build into my > application flow a header("Location: someurl") redirect after a form > submission. It's just as if you were to include("somefile") the > resulting page, but by using header() you are moving the user away > from the action so that this sort of thing won't happen. In my > experience it also helps with a user's tendency to use the back > button--which is not "wrong", it can just get in the way of rich > applications. If it's not "wrong" for me to push the "back" button, why are you breaking it with all your re-directs :-) Seriously, I think the re-direct feature is the most over-used and abused feature. It's also wasteful of HTTP connections which will kill a busy server, and does not scale well. I generally find that if I sit down and figure out why there is a re-direct, and then code the application so that I don't need the re-direct, because I've gathered/generated the information in advance or re-structed things to not need the re-direct, I end up with a far more clean and sensible design in my code-base. YMMV -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm