At 08:30 pm 8/18/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Chris Ulrich wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:24:47 -0400 (EDT) Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Bill Shupp wrote:
> > >
> > > > Why do I get logged out when doing a refresh in a browser? It also
> happens
> > > > when going "back" sometimes.
> > >
> > > See SECURITY.
> > >
> > > If you want to refresh: right-click somewhere in the window, then select
> > > "Reload frame".
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Sam
> > >
> > >
> > --end of quoted text--
> >
> > Users tend not to be sophisticated enough to understand instructions at
> all,
> > let alone something with more than 3 syllables like "right click and"
> at which
> > point their attention has wandered to the shinny red button somewhere else.
> >
> > Would it be possible to put html on the screen that causes the particular
> > frame to get reloaded?
>
>Unfortunately, not. The only way to avoid this is to force people to
>accept cookies, which is something I'm not about to do.
>
>Briefly put:
>
>* To avoid the requirement for cookies, account authentication token must
>be included in every URL.
>
>* To avoid having the URLs being logged in the browser history, a frameset
>has to be used. So what you see on the screen is really a generic
>frame. Which, if refreshed, kicks you out of the account, because you
>can't modify the frameset. That's why you have to tell the browser to
>refresh the frame only.
>
>--
>Sam
If you haven't noticed, Internet Explorer saves all the history nonetheless
in it's history bar (yet another great IE thing).. So in that case using
frames to hide the URL from being cached is non-existant..
I'm sure also using javascript document.reload() (or
document.framename.reload() maybe), should work as a 'refresh' button for
the user
Just something to keep in mind ;)
/jesse
