Great idea Rick...wonder if anyone has ported that over to a taf yet? Steve
On 2/24/03 12:08 PM, "Rick Sanders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
