What about making the page expire like they do on the PayPal website? When you click back, you get the page expired message.
Rick Sanders ----- Original Message ----- From: "James MacFarlane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:51 PM Subject: RE: WiTango-Talk: overcoming the browser back button > In short, there is *NO WAY* to disable the BACK button. > > One thing you can do is have the form submit itself to a page that generates > a redirect to the following page. This way if the user presses BACK they > will go back to the redirect page, which will send them back forward again. > > This will not stop the user from using HISTORY to go back though. > > Another technique is to use a hidden frameset to store some 'page state' > variable. Whenever a page loads, you can have it run a javascript function > in the hidden frame. When page TWO loads you can have a variable on the > hidden page set to "2", so if someone goes back to page ONE, the script in > the hidden frame can detect that they've already been to page TWO and send > them back there. > > There are many things you can do, none of them are 100% fool-proof. These > ones should work pretty well though. > > - James > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: WiTango-Talk: overcoming the browser back button > > The mail action is fixed...the logs showed that I relayed myself out..so the > idea to que is a good one..and iss now working. > > Now on to the next problem. > > I have a simple form entry, that checks against a few columns to make sure > the user has entered data in the form already. I am only allowing the user > to enter once. > > I have found that hitting the "browswer back" button that they can keep > entereing. > > Anyway around this? > > > Steve > > Thanks for eveyrthing guys.. > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
