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From: Derek Featherstone
Date: Mar 6, 2007 10:40AM

On 3/6/07, Keith Parks wrote:

>How does this method [instant server-side redirects] affect the
browser's BACK button function?

It doesn't affect it at all, and that's one of the main reasons to use
it. If you use the server to do what it was designed to do, you
eliminate all sorts of problems such as the one you describe here:

>My problem with client-side instant (zero delay) redirects is that it
>can be nearly impossible for users to "back" past the redirect page
>(unless they use the drop-down History list, which I find few people
>seem to know about).


Cheers,
Derek.
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