Re: back button gets Warning, page expired

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Janet Valade wrote: > > When a user fills in a form and clicks the submit button and is on the new > page, if they click the back button in the browser, they get a warning from > Apache: > > "Warning: Page has Expired > The page you requested was created using information you submitted in > a form. This page is no longer available. As a security precaution, > Internet Explorer does not automatically resubmit your information for you. > To resubmit your information and view this Web page, click the > Refresh button. " > While the previous form will be displayed if they click Refresh, no one ever > reads this. They just see the page expired and believe the info is gone. So, > my questions are: > 1) Why are they getting this message? When I do just a little test page with > one field in the form, this doesn't happen. The back button just goes back > to the form with a warning. What triggers this warning? > 2) How can I do this so that the warning does not appear. So that the user > just goes back to the previous form, retaining the info in the form? > 3) Alternatively, does anyone know how to change the warning message in > Apache? If I could display a different message, I could make it more clear > to users. I know the Apache directive for changing an error message. > However, the syntax requires the 3-digit error code. This message is a > warning and doesn't seem to have a 3 digit error code. At least, it doesn't > display it. Anyone know how to change a warning message in Apache? > Janet > One technique I find useful is for the form to go to a "placeholder" script, that is, one that does the relevant session or DB stuff and then all it does is send the browser a "Location:" header pointing to the real page. The browser never gets to the submission page, because there isn't one, so the message is avoided. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>