Thanks a lot Chris. I found the problem. It was my problem. I was putting wrong '/' (forward slash) before the mentioned page. Everything works as expected now.
Chinmoy On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Chinmoy Chakraborty <cch...@gmail.com>wrote: > Chris, > > Thanks a lot for your reply...here are my answers for your questions.. > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Christopher Schultz < > ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Chinmoy, >> >> On 10/11/12 10:55 AM, Chinmoy Chakraborty wrote: >> > I am using Tomcat 7.0.29 and I have an application which uses JSF >> > 1.2. All my .htm requests are mapped to faces Servlet. On login it >> > allows to me go x.htm and renders the page nicely but when I press >> > BACK button of the browser internally it calls >> > "*window.location.href = "/x.htm*"; and it gives 404 error in >> > FireFox only (in IE it works fine). in *Tomcat 6.0.24*it works fine >> > both in FF and IE. Following is the exact error: >> > >> > HTTP Status 404 - /x.htm ------------------------------ >> > >> > *type* Status report >> > >> > *message* */x.htm* >> > >> > *description* *The requested resource (/x.htm) is not available.* >> > ------------------------------ Apache Tomcat/7.0.29 >> >> We need more information: >> >> What happens when you hit http://yourserver/x.htm (without logging-in >> first)? >> > > ---->> If I try this url it redirects me to the login page. in tomcat log > i see this: > > 127.0.0.1 - - [12/Oct/2012:10:03:45 +0530] "GET /WL/x.htm HTTP/1.1" 302 - > 127.0.0.1 - - [12/Oct/2012:10:03:45 +0530] "GET /WL/x1.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 > 5477 , (x1.htm is my login page) > >> >> What exact mechanism do you use to "call window.location.href='/x.htm'"? >> > > ---->> I call this js method on window unload event... > >> >> What URL shows in the browser bar when you try to hit the back button >> and the above javascript executes? >> > ----->> it shows http://myserver/x.htm?custom variable=custom value (at > this point server finds x.htm and renders nicely) > > >> >> > Could you please let me know where I am going wrong? (basically my >> > goal is to do something equivalent to disabling back button). >> >> You know that's impossible, right? If you don't want your users to go >> "back", then you'll have to provide a custom client. Look into Mozilla >> Prism (now Chromeless). It at least used to allow you to specify which >> features to support -- like whether or now BACK was supported. >> > > --->> I am aware of this but what you propose is not an option for me. > >> >> - -chris >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) >> Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAlB23/gACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PDkfwCfeN/0gdjp2DPAw+9pxvWmDQsx >> SWAAn0YCkWmmbR0pPsGhezXIoBlyCxef >> =bRay >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> >> >
