Browser Back Button

Hi,

I need to handle the IE back button in the following manner. Whenever user clicks on the browser back button the browser should display "Warning

age has expired" message.

I want to know can this be achieved thru Javascript, if yes then how?

Please Help.

[Bear edit: not so urgent]
[ April 08, 2005: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

Doesn't sound urgent to me.

Search the HTML or JSP forums (since this is an HTML question) and you should find the answer. You don't need JavaScript to do this.

You can do this by using sessions. For more details on sessions using Java Servlets , look here

Originally posted by Ashish Chopra:
You can do this by using sessions. For more details on sessions using Java Servlets , look here

Hmm. What does a session have to do with expiring a page?

Originally posted by Paul Sturrock:

Hmm. What does a session have to do with expiring a page?

The error message that will be displayed by using sessions in case of pressing the back button would be "session expired" and I guess this was the functionality that was desired. This is commonly used in banking application websites.

This functionality is typically used when you log out of your e-mail account & try to go back to it using the back button. There it says " your session has expired, please relogin!"
[ April 08, 2005: Message edited by: Ashish Chopra ]

Do you mean to say the work of session is to display "your session has expired, please relogin!"

This functionality is typically used when you log out of your e-mail account & try to go back to it using the back button. There it says " your session has expired, please relogin!"

True, but the post was about expiring a page not a session. And you can do that with meta tags.

THis doesn't seem to have anything to do with Java. I'm moving it to HTML.

Eric