[Templates] form submit question (probably stupid)

[darren chamberlain]

Andrew Beattie (andrew@tug.com) 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)

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