Re: Can anyone help with solving the "BACK" button problem, in th e browser?

[Peter Alfors <pe...@irista.com>]

Thane ,

I am using:
    <META http-equiv="Expires" content="now">
in my header, and my action is not re-executed when I use the browser
back button.
Is there another option I should be using?

thanks,
    Pete


Thane Eisener wrote:

>
>
> I seem to recall a META tag called something like pragma-no-cache that
> you can embed in your page which will force the page to reload (not
> just display a snapshot). This should enable handling the situation in
> scriptlets or your action class.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Alfors [mailto:peter.alfors@irista.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 9:52 AM
> To: struts-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Can anyone help with solving the "BACK" button problem,
> in
> the browser?
>
> Depending on which browser you use, and the data on the page, the back
> button
> may cause (or ask) the page to reload.
> However, some browsers (like IE) only display a snapshot of what the
> last page
> rendered to.
> Therefore, you cannot use scriptlets or the action class.  However,
> you are able
> to kick-off javascript.
> If you can gaurantee that your users will have javascript enabled, you
> can write
> a simple test to see if this page was already displayed to the user.
> You could
> check a flag (hidden field) when the page loads.  If the flag is true,
> then use
> the javascript to reload to your desired page.
>
> HTH,
>     Pete
>
> "Dudley Butt@i-Commerce" wrote:
>
> > Please help,
> >
> > When the user pushes the back button, I want the page to redirect or
> refresh
> > to a different page, please, any ideas?
> >
> > Thanx guys and gals
> > Dudley