Aha! I knew I should have stopped taxing my brain about this one long ago! The answer is simple: when your head hurts, ask the list. Thanks very much. On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:17:24AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Anyone have any tricks up their sleeve to prevent the following: > > IE, on opening a new browser windows, or on revisiting through history a > > page which submitted some post data, will re-post that data, > > which causes me problems, as POST triggers my music player window, > > with a random mix from the post parameters. > > Netscape does this too, but only on reload. > > > > It's tricky to have a flag disallowing reposts, because it's hard to > > differentiate between an accidental one and a real one. > > > > I guess I'm just wondering if anyone has thought hard about this here. > > You oculd put a one-time key in the form values. -- "Computer games don't affect kids. I mean, if Pacman affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music."
