More Back Button Madness

Rails
1

I am having problems with form fields retaining values when the user
hits the back button. This occurs with standard pure html forms, like:

Title:

If the user fills in the text field and submits, or browses to another
page, when they hit the back button the form is blank.

I only get the error when using IE and the page is being served with
Webrick.

Does anyone have any ideas what might cause this?

Thanks for any advice/tips…

2

Well I figured it out.

It was caused by the no-cache header rails automatically adds.

Safari and Firexo correctly handle it. IE 6 decides to save the
original state of the form and ignore any user input. Great. Another
bunch of hours wasted.

BTW - both of the following work in IE 6
@response.headers[‘Cache-Control’] = ’ ’

@response.headers[‘Cache-Control’] = ‘private’

Of course, on the private one turns off caching.

Stop the madness…

Desert P. wrote:

I am having problems with form fields retaining values when the user
hits the back button. This occurs with standard pure html forms, like:

Title:

If the user fills in the text field and submits, or browses to another
page, when they hit the back button the form is blank.

I only get the error when using IE and the page is being served with
Webrick.

Does anyone have any ideas what might cause this?

Thanks for any advice/tips…