Re: handling a user pressing browser's back button

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* James <jtu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Actually:
>
> Will there be an issue with the back button if I use 1 script to do 
> all of what I posted before?

No. 


> Thank you guys for the answers.  I think I will go with the following approach.
>
> (A) script 1 submits to script 2 then
> (B) script 2 redirects browser back to script 1
>
> Script 1 is in charge of submitting and displaying; script 2 does the 
> processing.
>
> This list is the best!
> -James
>
>
> At 2:08 AM +0000 4/27/05, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> >* James <jtu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>  I apologize in advance if I'm asking basic questions...
>>>
>>>  When you hit the back button, won't the browser just take the page
>>>  from the cache?
>>>
>>>  I haven't switched my POSTs to GETs and this is what I'm seeing.
>>>  I have a list of images.  There are check boxes next to the images.
>>>  When the user checks images and clicks on a DELETE CHECKED link, a
>>>  new list is shown (minus the ones deleted.)  When the user hits the
>>>  BACK button, I see the list again with checks next to the previous
>>>  images marked for deletion
> >
> >By the way... the rule of thumb I think about is this:
> >* Use GET requests when you want to be able to bookmark the page --
>>   i.e., when you want the behaviour repeatable. Typical example is
>>   searches.
> >
> >* Use POST requests when the operation will affect the data in some way
>>   that shouldn't be cached. Examples: submitting data that will be
>>   stored in the database, will update a database, or will delete an
>>   entry in the database.
> >
> >Because of the back button issues (namely, not all browsers treat 'back'
> >the same way), you will need to do some workarounds, typically with
> >sessions; I've mentioned these under separate cover.
> >
>>>  Just in case...
>>>  I tried to add the following header before any html output to force
>>>  the browser to not load from the cache and it didn't work.
>>>
>>>  header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
> >
> >Not all browsers will actually follow these 'rules' (actually, they're
> >in the HTTP specification, but 'rule' just sounds better). Heck,
> >versions of the same browser on different platforms sometimes treat them
> >differently.
> >
> >This is why session handling techniques are a common 'fix' for bad
> >browser behaviour in these instances.
> >
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