Re: Using Header() to pass information...

On Tue, April 25, 2006 4:47 pm, Stut wrote: > 3b) User clicks on a normal link, goes to another page then hits > back... > user sees an evil-looking and unexpected question asking whether to > resubmit the form values. Most users I know will hit OK because they > don't understand it. This is bad, form gets submitted again. It's only "bad" if your application is silly enough to accept that duplicate information twice in a row, and it shouldn't have accepted it... > In the > case > where they hit cancel instead they end up with an error message and > have > effectively left your site... also very bad. Aroo? How does cancel effectively "leave my site"? They're still ON my site. > In my most humble opinion, any post handler that doesn't do a redirect > after processing the form is bad. Hope that made sense. In my opinion, since the user CAN manage with fast-clicking, to "catch" the processing script before the redirect, and because they can STILL manage to re-submit the form, without the NORMAL browser behaviour they have come to expect, you're just BREAKING browser functionality, without actually solving the problem 100%... Guess we'll just have to agree to disagree, hunh? -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm