I believe you will need to design your system to accomodate this case.
There is no workaround that I am aware of, and this is a very common
user behavior.
tim.
> This question doesn't really apply to the webserver in general. I have
> developed an ecommerce application using java beans and jsp.
> Unfortunately, during qa testing, one problem keeps coming up. If you
> click the back button on the browser and ignore the navigation built into
> the system, you encounter errors. I've researched if there was a way to
> disable the browser navigation options via javascript or some other way but
> I found that this is not really possible. What I was wondering is how do
> other java professionals handle this problem? Has anyone ever ran into
> this?