On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 04:33:42PM -0700, Craig McClanahan wrote:
> Christian Bollmeyer wrote:
> >1. You've reached the end of a processing chain
> >and want to leave the user at a determined
> >application state, a point from which he may
> >start another interaction with the application,
> >but everything else is done and finished.
> >Such as redirecting to the starting page
> >after a 'wizard' has completed.
>
> A variation on this same theme is if you want to leave the user a point
> at which they can save a bookmark to this spot in your application, you
> need to use a redirect. Otherwise, the URL being bookmarked will not be
> correct (it will be the URL to which the last form submit occurred,
> rather than the page being displayed).
Another nuance, which I find comes in handy quite often, is that
responding to a form submit with a redirect will prevent the browser
from offering to re-post the parameters for the user.
--
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