Re: Re: preventing "back" button usage?

From: Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 14:59:16 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: preventing "back" button usage?
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On Thursday, March 28, 2002, at 06:50 PM, Michael Virnstein wrote:
This is not possible. You cannot force the browser not to go back in its history, don't even trie to find a solution for this... the question you should ask yourself is not how to disable the browser history but how you can prevent your page by getting screwed by multiple posts.
I see. Then, when I try to do something similar to this on FedEx.com or Amazon.com, is it JavaScript that redirects me to an error page? If so then I will have to use both tactics -- preventing a form from being resubmit, and JavaScript to "disable" the back button (unethical as it may be). Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown pricee@hhbrown.com

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