Javascript history object

date posted 24th April 2001 14:32

Here's the scenario...

on the site there are several news stories, at the bottom of each, is the
option to add comments, when you click this you are taken to a form which
allows you to input your comments,

on submitting the form you are taken to a thanks page, which should then
redirect you back to the news story.

the problem is that using javascript:history.go(-2); you are indeed taken
back to the story but the page needs to be refreshed so as your comments are
visible, I have tried using a no cache meta tag but this doesn't appear to
work. any ideas.

my only thought was to write a cookie on the thanks page that is looked for
on the news story, if its found then the page is refreshed (and the cookie
deleted) but this seems to be a lot of work for a simple task .

(this is on a Linux/apache/perl server so ASP isn't an option. ;-)


decal