You should still be able to use the back button; it just shouldn't try to post the data again if you do so. Are you getting a prompt about resending post data, or are you just talking about being able to use the back button at all? If the latter, that's exactly what should happen. Breaking the user's back button is bad.
On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 12:41:20 PM UTC, graeme wrote: > > The Django docs (and a lot else) recommend redirecting after successfully > processing a post request (if it changes data). i.e. post, the save stuff > to the database, then redirect. > > Current browsers seem to allow this. I have tried Chromium 28 and 24 on > Linux, I user return redirect(...) after the post, and I can still use the > back button. > > Is it my configuration, or is it usual? What is the best practice if this > is broken? > > In some cases I think tracking where the user is (in the session, or using > the state of a particular object such as an order model), and redirecting > any request for an earlier page in a sequence may be the way to go. Or is > this a solved problem that I am too far behind the curve to know about? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/1dcdf23f-94da-41c4-aed9-ef70ca63dfeb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
