Andrew Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something to this effect on 06/19/2001: > "Randal L. Schwartz" wrote: > > Uh, you can't. How can you know where hitting "back" twice takes me? > > You can't go "back" by going "forward". It doesn't work. > > > > Just another voting member of the committee to stamp out useless > > history-mangling refreshes... :) > > Can the committee help me with my problem? > > Kitez.com is a search engine with a DNS interface. You put your > search string into the URL. If the search returns only one one match, > then it does a redirect to the site in question (this is reasonable > because the database holds only sites related to kite flying). > > The redirection code used is: > > <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="1; url='http://www.kfs.org/~abw//'"> > > Now, the problem is that when you hit "back" on Andy's page, you > go back to kitez.com for a second then get refreshed back to Andy's > page, regardless of how many times you hit "escape"...
Why can't you send a Location header from the browser, rather than a HTML page with a refresh in it? That would avoid the problem altogether. Something like (warning: I haven't tested this): <VirtualHost 10.0.0.1:80> ServerName wardley.kitex.com Redirect / http://www.kfs.org/~abw/ </VirtualHost> Is there some reason this is undoable? I assume you're using Apache, of course... (darren) -- The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. -- Merrick Furst
