Question

form auto submit

Asked by: aarch1

Hi All,

I have a html page X which calls a asp page using auto html form
submit which in turn calls the html page X back using auto form submit.

All these happens in just one click on the link to html page X in html page Y.

Everything is cool. But, the problem is when the user click "BACK" button
on the brower, he is thrown back to html page X. He wants to go the html page Y (where is originally came from).

I tried using location.replace(location) on asp page but it didn't work?

Any thoughts?

Also, the link to html page X is on multiple html pages like html page Z etc.

Thanks in advance.

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2008-06-03 at 13:16:49ID23454546
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html, asp, javascript

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JavaScript

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Miscellaneous Web Development

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Active Server Pages (ASP)

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Answers

 

by: simonetPosted on 2008-06-03 at 13:28:25ID: 21704231

The browser is actually right.

This is what happens:

Y -> X ------------->  Z -------------------> X
________submit_________submit

when the user is in the last page X shown above, the back button references page Z.

One way to achieve this is:
since you want to stay on page X while seaminglessly submitting a form, and still let the user browse back to page Y, I suggest you to use AJAX. Since with AJAX only the actual data will be posted, and not an entire page, the location history will not be touched.

There are a lot of AJAX tutorials out there with all the code you need (very little - if any - development required).
http://www.c-point.com/javascript_tutorial/Editor/ajax_tutorial.htm
http://www.hackorama.com/ajax/ajax.js.html
http://www.hackorama.com/ajax/
http://www.mad4milk.net/entry/moo.ajax


Another way is to disable the navigation buttons on the browser's window, and let the site's hyperlinks dictate the navigation.

I still think AJAX is the best alternative for this.

 

by: aarch1Posted on 2008-06-03 at 13:52:59ID: 21704439

No. There is some confustion. This is how it calls.

Y -> X__submit__ ASP__submit______X

Similarly

Z -> X__submit__ ASP__submit______X

Thanks

 

by: simonetPosted on 2008-06-03 at 13:56:52ID: 21704477

the ASP in the middle counts for the browser history list.

Is the second submit really required? Won't a Reponse.Redirect or Server.Transfer work for you?

 

by: aarch1Posted on 2008-06-03 at 14:21:38ID: 21704657

Second submit is requred.

Can we use location.replace in asp to replace the browser history list.

 

by: simonetPosted on 2008-06-03 at 14:30:37ID: 21704729

The browser histoty list cannot be altered. Although you can use Javascript to read it, you cannot make changes to it.

I don't any other way other than AJAX.

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