Re: Why do some pages repeat a previous page's action(s) after redirect?

Do yo Chris W. Parker wrote: Quick question: Do you use frames and does the behavior of your code depend on data stored from page to page? If so, what kind of session system do you use? > Hello, > > I have a form page and a processing page. After submitting the form the > processing page does whatever it needs to do (insert a record, send back > validation errors, etc.) After determing what to do it always redirects > somewhere with header('Location: URL'); > > But sometimes when I'm back at the form page (after the redirect) and I > refresh the page it does the previous page's actions again. And again > and again. > > Why would it do that? Shouldn't a refresh just resubmit whatever is in > the address bar and not go through a certain path? > > The only way I've found to make it stop redoing the previous page's > actions is to put my cursor in the address bar and press enter. > > I don't remember seeing this behavior in the past so I wonder if it has > something to do with Apache's or PHP's configuration. > > > Thanks, > Chris.