cache problemette

[Nel]

Hi!

I am trying to prevent a browser going back to a logon screen and any user
being able to refresh (and the browser re-submits the post data).

I understand that the following should work. It doesn't.

header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: Mon,26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");

Any ideas. And yes I am inserting the code before any output.

Thanx

Nel.

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[neur0maniak]

Nel wrote:

Hi!

I am trying to prevent a browser going back to a logon screen and any user
being able to refresh (and the browser re-submits the post data).

I understand that the following should work. It doesn't.

header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: Mon,26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");

Any ideas. And yes I am inserting the code before any output.

Thanx

Nel.

There isn't a way to prevent your form from being submitted by the
browser (it's a browser behaviour, it can do whatever it wants). One
thing you can do is set a session cookie, or a session variable
(session_start() adds the headers you've mentioned anyway) once a user
has already submitted the form, a variable is set so the next time it's
submitted it doesn't get processed again.

Those headers you've mentioned means that a browser MUST post data to go
back and view the page (which causes a dialog prompt or a "page expired"
message). Session cookies are the only way I found to get around that,
and still carry data from one page to another without using get/post and
forcing the browser to re-post it's data.

Hope this helps..

[Chung Leong]

"Nel" <ne***@ne14.co.NOSPAMuk> wrote in message
news:40*********************@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...

Hi!

I am trying to prevent a browser going back to a logon screen and any user
being able to refresh (and the browser re-submits the post data).

I understand that the following should work. It doesn't.

header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: Mon,26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");

Any ideas. And yes I am inserting the code before any output.

Thanx

Nel.

I usually do a redirect after every post in order to prevent that nasty
resubmission message. Works well in IE. Just do header("Location:
index.php") or something similiar.

[Nel]

"Chung Leong" <ch***********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:if********************@comcast.com...

I usually do a redirect after every post in order to prevent that nasty
resubmission message. Works well in IE. Just do header("Location:
index.php") or something similiar.

Thanks Chung! That is so simple and works very well in IE and Netscape.

Nel