Re: POST method with the dreaded back button

Don't output anything from the script receiving the POST. Instead, redirect to another script. At 06:19 7.12. 2000, Carter Comunale wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ------end of quote------ ____________________________________________________________ Cynic: A member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who taught that virtue constitutes happiness and that self control is the essential part of virtue. cynic@mail.cz ICQ: 2808 2505