why I need to click refresh button in order to see session values

=?Utf-8?B?YzY3NjIyOA==?=

Hi all,
Recently, I just found out that our program behaves differently from before.

in our asp, in order to prevent data disppearing problem in form fields,we
use session variable to display the field values if a customer click "back"
button on the page2.asp in the browser,(the session variables
Session(aQuoteName(iPerson)&"TripCost") is set up in the page2.asp) i.e.
then in the page1.asp, we use:
<input name="<%=aQuoteName(iPerson)& "TripCost" %>" type="text" size="6"
value="<%=Session(aQuoteName(iPerson)&"TripCost")% >">
to display the tripcost. This works very well in the past all the time. But
today, when I do the similar programming, whenever I click "back" button on
page2.asp, the data on the page1.asp all disappeared and I have to click
"refresh" button on page1.asp in order to display all the session variables.
What's going on, does this have to have something to do with window security
patches, I didn't have anything changed in the program or IIS configuration.
I also test the production version, same thing happened which it never
happend before???
Can you shed a light on me?
--
Betty

Mar 20 '07 #1

Subscribe Reply

2650

Anthony Jones

"c676228" <be****@community.nospamwrote in message
news:35**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hi all,
Recently, I just found out that our program behaves differently from

before.

>
in our asp, in order to prevent data disppearing problem in form fields,we
use session variable to display the field values if a customer click

"back"

button on the page2.asp in the browser,(the session variables
Session(aQuoteName(iPerson)&"TripCost") is set up in the page2.asp) i.e.
then in the page1.asp, we use:
<input name="<%=aQuoteName(iPerson)& "TripCost" %>" type="text" size="6"
value="<%=Session(aQuoteName(iPerson)&"TripCost")% >">
to display the tripcost. This works very well in the past all the time.

But

today, when I do the similar programming, whenever I click "back" button

page2.asp, the data on the page1.asp all disappeared and I have to click
"refresh" button on page1.asp in order to display all the session

variables.

What's going on, does this have to have something to do with window

security

patches, I didn't have anything changed in the program or IIS

configuration.

I also test the production version, same thing happened which it never
happend before???
Can you shed a light on me?

Are you sure it was working before? The browser is not obliged to re-fetch
the previous page from the origin server when you hit the back button. In
fact in my experience it rarely does.

Mar 20 '07 #2

Steven Cheng[MSFT]

Hi Betty,

As for the behavior you mentioned, I've try testing it on my local side and
seems haven't been able to repro the exact same symptom. Have you tried
visiting that page from different client machine to see if you'll get the
consistent result?

One thing I could get is the client-browser caching, however, normally
client cache will also display the input values from previous view. Anyway,
you can try add the following like code snippet to disable client cache for
your input page to see whether it can help some.
============================
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<%
pStr = "private, no-cache, must-revalidate"
Response.ExpiresAbsolute = #2000-01-01#
Response.AddHeader "pragma", "no-cache"
Response.AddHeader "cache-control", pStr
%>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" method="post" action="test.asp">
<input id="Text1" name="Text1" type="text" value='<%= Session("Text1")
%>' />
<input id="Text2" name="Text2" type="text" value='<%= Session("Text2")
%>' />
<input id="Submit1" type="submit" value="submit" />

</form>

</body>
</html>
=============================

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead

==================================================

Get notification to my posts through email? Please refer to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscripti...ult.aspx#notif
ications.

Note: The MSDN Managed Newsgroup support offering is for non-urgent issues
where an initial response from the community or a Microsoft Support
Engineer within 1 business day is acceptable. Please note that each follow
up response may take approximately 2 business days as the support
professional working with you may need further investigation to reach the
most efficient resolution. The offering is not appropriate for situations
that require urgent, real-time or phone-based interactions or complex
project analysis and dump analysis issues. Issues of this nature are best
handled working with a dedicated Microsoft Support Engineer by contacting
Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS) at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscripti...t/default.aspx.

==================================================

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Mar 20 '07 #3

=?Utf-8?B?YzY3NjIyOA==?=

Yes, Anthony. It worked perfectly fine. The reason I am 100% sure is before
we never used session variables to retain field values in the form and a lot
of customers complained about and I fixed that long time ago after using
session variables and shocked yesterday, it doesn't work that way anymore.
--
Betty
"Anthony Jones" wrote:

>
"c676228" <be****@community.nospamwrote in message
news:35**********************************@microsof t.com...
Hi all,
Recently, I just found out that our program behaves differently from
before.

in our asp, in order to prevent data disppearing problem in form fields,we
use session variable to display the field values if a customer click
"back"
button on the page2.asp in the browser,(the session variables
Session(aQuoteName(iPerson)&"TripCost") is set up in the page2.asp) i.e.
then in the page1.asp, we use:
<input name="<%=aQuoteName(iPerson)& "TripCost" %>" type="text" size="6"
value="<%=Session(aQuoteName(iPerson)&"TripCost")% >">
to display the tripcost. This works very well in the past all the time.
But
today, when I do the similar programming, whenever I click "back" button
on
page2.asp, the data on the page1.asp all disappeared and I have to click
"refresh" button on page1.asp in order to display all the session
variables.
What's going on, does this have to have something to do with window
security
patches, I didn't have anything changed in the program or IIS
configuration.
I also test the production version, same thing happened which it never
happend before???
Can you shed a light on me?

Are you sure it was working before? The browser is not obliged to re-fetch
the previous page from the origin server when you hit the back button. In
fact in my experience it rarely does.

Mar 20 '07 #4

=?Utf-8?B?YzY3NjIyOA==?=

Superb, Steven, your code works perfectly fine. After I cut and pasted that
part into my page1.asp. It behaves as I expected. Can you recommand me
several resouces(web site, book etc.) that I can refer that part of
knowledge. Response.AddHeader...
You are my lucky star.
--
Betty
"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" wrote:

Hi Betty,

As for the behavior you mentioned, I've try testing it on my local side and
seems haven't been able to repro the exact same symptom. Have you tried
visiting that page from different client machine to see if you'll get the
consistent result?

One thing I could get is the client-browser caching, however, normally
client cache will also display the input values from previous view. Anyway,
you can try add the following like code snippet to disable client cache for
your input page to see whether it can help some.
============================
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<%
pStr = "private, no-cache, must-revalidate"
Response.ExpiresAbsolute = #2000-01-01#
Response.AddHeader "pragma", "no-cache"
Response.AddHeader "cache-control", pStr
%>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" method="post" action="test.asp">
<input id="Text1" name="Text1" type="text" value='<%= Session("Text1")
%>' />
<input id="Text2" name="Text2" type="text" value='<%= Session("Text2")
%>' />
<input id="Submit1" type="submit" value="submit" />

</form>

</body>
</html>
=============================

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead

==================================================

Get notification to my posts through email? Please refer to
http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscripti...ult.aspx#notif
ications.

Note: The MSDN Managed Newsgroup support offering is for non-urgent issues
where an initial response from the community or a Microsoft Support
Engineer within 1 business day is acceptable. Please note that each follow
up response may take approximately 2 business days as the support
professional working with you may need further investigation to reach the
most efficient resolution. The offering is not appropriate for situations
that require urgent, real-time or phone-based interactions or complex
project analysis and dump analysis issues. Issues of this nature are best
handled working with a dedicated Microsoft Support Engineer by contacting
Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS) at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscripti...t/default.aspx.

==================================================

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Mar 20 '07 #5

Steven Cheng[MSFT]

Thanks for your reply Betty,

I'm glad that the suggestion is of assistance. I'm not sure about any books
on classic ASP since ASP.NET is currently popluar for web application
dev:). For resource site, I think the FAQ site below is quite good:

http://tutorials.aspfaq.com/

You can find many useful suggestion for classic ASP there.

BTW, I've also point it in your another thread "multiple image button
submit..."

Hope this also helps.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Mar 21 '07 #6

Similar topics

New record saved when Refresh clicked

by: Mark | last post by:

I have a working PHP/MySQL application used for data entry. The data entry screen includes a "Save" button. The PHP code for this button looks like this: if (isset($_POST)) { if ($_POST ==...