Re: POST method with the dreaded back button

You can try adding some headers to tell the browser that the data is valid for the next 10 minutes or whatever, but there's bound to be some browser that will still mess up. Upgrade your browser? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carter Comunale" <carter@brasscity.com> Newsgroups: php.general Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 8:13 PM Subject: [PHP] POST method with the dreaded back button > I am using the POST vs. the GET method in one of my forms to avoid > displaying a user password in the URL. > > Problem is that when the back button is hit to return to the posted data I > get the dreaded POST error. > > Is there an elegant way to avoid this? > > If it were up to me I would remove the back button from the browser and hit > it with a crowbar, but that just won't do. > > Ideas? > > Carter > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >