> Anyways, my advice still stands - use GET if you can.
Unfortunately, GET is not appropriate all the time. In the case of a
shopping cart application, using get would cause the form to be re-executed
automatically, which defeats the purpose (see my original post). Somehow,
amazon is managing to do this successfully.
> > Internet Explorer (IE) 4.01 experiences the same problem
Incidentally, Netscape 4.5 does, too.
c
> > I'm working on a JSP shopping cart implementation, and am
> having a problem
> > getting a desired behavior. Here's what happens with my shopping cart:
> >
> > -- my cart --
> > (1) User is viewing the cart,
> > (2) User changes the quantity of item(s) in the cart via a form
> > (METHOD=post), and submits.
> > (3) Quantity is updated.
> > (4) User changes the quantity of item(s) again.
> > (5) User hits back button.
> > (6) With IE5, user gets message "Warning: Page has expired," and
> > is invited
> > to hit the refresh button.
> > (7) User hits the refresh button, and their quantities are back
> > at what the
> > were at step (3).
> >
> > This is clearly not optimal! For an example of what I'm trying to
> > accomplish, check out amazon.com:
> >
> > -- desired behavior (e.g., as at amazon.com) --
> >
> > (1-5) as above
> > (6) No problem -- user is simply taken back to the previous screen
> > (7) User clicks on "view cart" (or whatever) and the correct
> > quantities are
> > displayed.
> >
> > I've looked for a setting on HttpServletResponse, but to no
> avail. amazon
> > doesn't seem to be using any META tags or special FORM tags that
> > I can see.
> >
> > Help!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > chris
> >
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