caroline, when the user gets to page2, what is the url displayed in the address box? is it the action or the jsp page?
claire ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caroline Lauferon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 4:04 PM Subject: Re: forward vs redirect ? > > For example, say i had an action which saved some details from a form to a > > database. if the page is not redirected then if the user were to refresh > the > > page, the action would be called again and the data saved again. This > > obviously i would not want the user to do so in this case i redirect the > > page, so that if the user were to refresh the page, the save action would > > not be called again. > > I'm not sure I understand what you mean. The case you describe is very close > to mine, and so I would like to prevent the user from making twice the > addition on refresh: > I've got one first form, Form1, which calls Action1: > <action path="/action1" name="Form1" type="actions.Action1" scope="session" > input="/form1.jsp"> > <forward name="ok" path="page2.jsp" redirect="true"/> > </action> > > but once the user is on page2, if he makes a refresh, action1 is called > again.... and the data added by action1 is added once more.... > > What didn't I understand? > Thanks > Caroline > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
