Alright, I feel like a dork. I tried various meta tags (Expires,
ExpiresAbsolute, max-age) to no avail. I fussed. I fretted. I pulled my hair
out.
Eventually, I started the JRun admin tool, and unchecked the "set no-cache
header" box.
: )
c
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Fesler
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 5:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: POST and browser behavior
>
>
> > Bob Foster wrote:
>
> > The original "problem" was that the user set a quantity and did a
> > POST. The
> > user-visible result of the POST was evidently to redisplay the
> same page.
> > Then the user changed a quantity and instead of hitting the
> submit button
> > again, hit the back button.
>
> Not exactly -- the user hits the submit button *again*, and then hits the
> back button. Thus they are rightly expecting their quantities to be what
> they changed them to the second time.
>
> > After going through the awkward but irrelevant
> > IE refresh dialog, the previous page was displayed with the previously
> > entered quantity. Why is this a surprise? That's what the back
> > button does.
> > It's a user error.
>
> As for it being a user error, I can't argue with you. However,
> it's an error
> that many users might make; I'd like to save them the trouble. The fact
> remains that on amazon's site, user's don't get what you
> accurately describe
> as the "awkward but irrelevant IE refresh dialog." I'm just
> curious how they
> (amazon, that is) manage it.
>
> c
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