[thelist] firefox maintaining post data after refresh
Richard Harb
rharb at earthling.net
Tue Mar 22 08:47:48 CST 2005
AFAIK this kind of behaviour is inherent to all browsers.
I usually make a server side redirect if I had any GET/POST modify content.
In PHP you can use header() for that.
HTH
Richard
-----Original Message-----
From: kris burford
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005, 6:05:00 PM
> hi
> i'm building an online management system where, after critical form
> submissions, the page does an auto-refresh (with a "thanks for
> submitting" message).
> i thought that this would clear the post data so that if a user then
> pressed refresh, the data would not get re-submitted.
> however it looks like firefox doesn't.
> has anyone else encountered this and, if so, is there a way around it?
> i've done a search for online (including the firefox support forums),
> but couldn't spot anything relevant...
> tia
> kris
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