Somewhere along the way, and that probably includes the manual, Massimo has 
noted that the use of the family of FORM helpers is generally used to get 
parameters for an action whose results are then displayed on another page 
as a redirect.  "What picture do you want to look at?  Okay, let's go to 
that picture...".

I do that with some of my forms, but in others, I just let the action 
happen and return the form for the next set of parameters.  "what do you 
want to change the tag to?  Okay, done,  Change another tag?"

When I do that, and then let the session expire before I get around to 
changing another tag (having youtube going on the other computer can do 
that to you), the major browsers will say something like "Confirm Form 
Resubmission".  That's sort of acceptable if it's just an app for me, 
myself, and I, but if I have actual users I will have confused users.

I know which ones I can resubmit safely, and which ones chopping the '#' 
off the end of the URL is a good way forward, but that isn't something I 
should be telling users to do.

I have one of the repetitive forms as a LOAD block in a page, and doing 
that hides the expiration issue, but it seems hokey to do that for all such 
forms.  However, about the only other idea I've come up with is to use a 
timer to cause a "redirect" to self, thus doing a fresh GET of the form.

Has anyone else come up with a better than either of those choices?

Thanks for your thoughts.

Dave 
/dps

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