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One shouldn't reload pages that result from forms 

Forum: HyperNews Source
Re: Errors in Going Back (Larry Belmont)
Date: 1994, Nov 28
From: Daniel M LaLiberte <liberte>

I believe the problem you are experiencing is due not to the fact that a form is displayed on the page you move back to, but that the page for editing your response was itself generated as a result of a form. I.e. the Add a Response button is a form and the action for the Add a Response form is called by method POST. Such pages should not be reloaded (either explicitly or when you go back to the page and the cache for it has been dropped) since the URL does not contain all the state information that was passed to the action via method POST.

This seems to be a design problem with method POST. Browsers could remember the fact that when you hit the submit button for a form, the resulting page from the form should never be reloaded. I've never seen this problem with Mosaic for X, but maybe I have just been lucky.

Also, I always back up over the forms immediately after adding a hypernews response and reload and go forward from the page that I added the response to. This removes those form pages from my history.

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1 I use the HTML keyword BASE to avoid such problems by hayne@scally.crim.ca, 1994, Dec 05

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