It's actually a compliance issue for an audit. Annoying for users I would wholeheartedly agree. I've actually seen something like what I am asking working on another website, although whatever the technique being used ONLY works with IE. I can easily go back using firefox..
Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 11:56 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Has anyone done this? > > > > Now for my issue. If a user leaves my site and goes somewhere > > else, and then attempts to use his back button to come back > > to the site, I would like to return them to the login prompt. > > Technically, since they didn't log off and moved to another > > url via a favorite or manually typed, when hitting the back > > button, they have sessions still active. So they are let back > > in. Has anyone done this before? I was thinking of checking > > the referrer, but am unsure if I can get that to work > > correctly when the user hits the back button. Am I on the > > right track looking at the CGI referrer variable... > > Unfortunately, you will find it very difficult to do this in > a reliable way, I suspect. I'm not sure why you'd want to do > it at all - it seems like a significant annoyance for your users. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > phone: 202-797-5496 > fax: 202-797-5444 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes by Ben Forta http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=40 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:182488 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
