Since when is a Refresh a PostBack?

Jonathan Wood

I'm getting into the habit of checking IsPostBack in my Form_Load handler
and not updating the page if it is a postback.

However, I notice that if I hit my browser's refresh button, the page
refreshes without any data.

Since when is a refresh a postback?

Thanks.

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Jonathan Wood
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Feb 10 '08 #1

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Mark Rae [MVP]

"Jonathan Wood" <jw***@softcircuits.comwrote in message
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Since when is a refresh a postback?

The Refresh button reloads the page in exactly the way that it was
originally loaded... If it was originally loaded as a result of a postback,
then hitting the Refresh button will cause it to be reloaded as from a
postback...

This is standard browser behaviour...
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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
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Feb 10 '08 #2

Eliyahu Goldin

A postback is no more than setting 2 hidden fields __EVENTTARGET and
__EVENTARGUMENT and calling the form's submit() method.

What hitting the Refresh button does is repeating the last submit() call
with exactly the same settings of all fields. Hence you get the effect you
are observing.

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"Jonathan Wood" <jw***@softcircuits.comwrote in message
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I'm getting into the habit of checking IsPostBack in my Form_Load handler
and not updating the page if it is a postback.

However, I notice that if I hit my browser's refresh button, the page
refreshes without any data.

Since when is a refresh a postback?

Thanks.

--
Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits Programming
http://www.softcircuits.com

Feb 10 '08 #3

Jonathan Wood

Yeah, okay, I may have more going on here than I originally thought.

Thanks for putting me back on the right track.

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Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits Programming
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"Mark Rae [MVP]" <ma**@markNOSPAMrae.netwrote in message
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"Jonathan Wood" <jw***@softcircuits.comwrote in message
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>Since when is a refresh a postback?

The Refresh button reloads the page in exactly the way that it was
originally loaded... If it was originally loaded as a result of a
postback, then hitting the Refresh button will cause it to be reloaded as
from a postback...

This is standard browser behaviour...
--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

Feb 10 '08 #4

Mark Rae [MVP]

"Jonathan Wood" <jw***@softcircuits.comwrote in message
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Thanks for putting me back on the right track.

You still persist in top-posting, though...
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ASP.NET MVP
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Feb 11 '08 #5

Jonathan Wood

Oh well.

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Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits Programming
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"Mark Rae [MVP]" <ma**@markNOSPAMrae.netwrote in message
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"Jonathan Wood" <jw***@softcircuits.comwrote in message
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>Thanks for putting me back on the right track.

You still persist in top-posting, though...
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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

Feb 11 '08 #6

Mark Rae [MVP]

"Jonathan Wood" <jw***@softcircuits.comwrote in message
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>You still persist in top-posting, though...

Oh well.

Learning how to snip would be useful too...
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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

Feb 11 '08 #7

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