Back Button Clears Form

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James

I have a form that returns and error message when you do
not fill out everything. If you hit your back button on
the browser it takes you back to the original form but
all form fields have been cleared. Does anyone seem to
know a solution to this problem?
 
Help file, look in AutoComplete

To adjust AutoComplete settings

You can configure AutoComplete to save and suggest only the information you
want. You can choose whether to use AutoComplete for Web addresses, forms,
and passwords, or not use it all. You can also clear the history for any of
these.

In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
Click the Content tab.
Under Personal information, click AutoComplete.
Select the check boxes for the AutoComplete options you want to use.
 
This is generally controlled by the web page. It is *very* doubtful that
autocomplete has anything to do with the problem.
 
Do you have a sample URL? I would look for a "back link"
rather than expect the back button to restore your typing.
Then it would be up to the application to give you your typing
back or not. If the typing contains sensitive data you also
shouldn't be surprised if you don't get it back because the
application has no way of knowing who is doing the back request
and may not even keep track of when the back request is being
done relative to the original entry of the data.

What happens if you try setting Work Offline before pressing
the back button? If that works it could imply that the application
wrote the updated page to your TIF before showing you the error
message. (I don't think that IE saves input data to the TIF on its own.)

Is the page encrypted? (E.g. is the https: protocol prefix used
to show it.) There is an option in the Advanced tab which could
affect whether the page is even available to the back button.
(Security section: Do not save encrypted pages to disk
is a default I think.)

It may help if you disclose your version of urlmon.dll
in case I have misread your problem description.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
 
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