Just so someone else doesn't go through the same pain as myself. Below is a synopsis of the problem and a solution.
Problem: I have a page with two forms (loginForm and accountForm) on it. One form contains fields to log in a user, the other contains fields to display the user account information for them to edit. The normal process is the user enters data in the login form and submits (via a POST) the request to the LoginAction class which processes the request, puts account details in the session and redirects (not forwards) back to the page. The accountForm "looks" in the session and pulls the account details out into the appropriate form input fields. Then, if the user wishes, they can edit their account details and submit the changes. This process works flawlessly in IE. In Netscape6.1 none of the text fields render the data that is contained in their value attribute's. That is, an input element may look like this, <input name="name1" type="text" value="robert" /> but nothing is rendered by the browser. To complicate matters, in Netscape4.7, I was getting a 302 status (file has been temporarily moved). So I created the following JSP page to reproduces the error and abstract away all of my other page stuff (CSS, Javascript, etc...): <% String submitted = request.getParameter("submitted"); String user = request.getParameter("user") == null? "":request.getParameter("user"); if (submitted != null) { session.setAttribute("user", user); response. sendRedirect("/test.jsp"); return; } %> <html> <head> <title>Test Netscape</title> </head> <body> <form name="form1" action="<%=request.getRequestURI() %>" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="true" /> <input type="text" name="user" value="<%=user%>" /><br/> <input type="submit" value="Submit" /> </form> <form> <input type="text" name="user" value="<%=(String)session.getAttribute("user")%>" /><br/> </form> </body> </html> And still got the same behaviour. Solution: Then completely on a guess I added an empty query string to the redirect URL. if (submitted != null) { session.setAttribute("user", user); response. sendRedirect("/test.jsp?"); <======= empty query string return; } And it worked on IE, Netscape6.1 and Netscape4.7! Go figure. This took me 18 hours to figure out. Hopefully it will save someone else some time. Or maybe I'm the only sap who hasn't yet figured this one out. Sorry about the formatting of the above code. robert __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>