How can I get correct backto page?

Hi All,

I'm new here. I need your help with the browser back button. The sequence of the jsp pages are: page 1 -> page 2 -> page 3. On page 2, there is an 'Export to Excel' button. When user clicks on it, it goes back to the servlet and generate an Excel file and downloads it to jsp page 3. Then when user clicks on the Browser back button on page 3, it does not go back to page 2, it goes back to page 1 instead. How can I control the 'backto' page on jsp page 3, which is the excel file page? It is obviously treated as page 2.

Thanks!
Jenny

a quick hack would be to use response.sendRedirect in ur servlet to get to the JSP page so that page 3 is treated as it should be... I am assuming that the servlet forwards the request to page 3 using requestdispatcher...

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Thanks!
bear
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Ganesh,

Thanks for your reply. I did try to use redirect and it didn't work. The erro message I got is:

Exception happened:
com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.WebAppErrorReport:
Please call the System Administrator.

The reason is that, we are using STRUTS framework. Every action has to return ActionForward from the executeBody() method. In order to use the redirect, I had to return null for that method and it caused this error.

Any solutions for that?

Thanks,
Jenny