Browser back button

When I click back button in internet explorer, my application gives me a blank page.I get the following message:

Warning: Page has Expired
The page you requested was created using information you submitted in a form. This page is no longer available. As a security precaution, Internet Explorer does not automatically resubmit your information for you

I am using javascript to set the action of form and then submit the form.

I have kept some information in session object also.

I am unable to debug, why this is happening.

Please help..

Thanks,
Neeraj

Because...The page you requested was created using information you submitted in a form. This page is no longer available. As a security precaution, Internet Explorer does not automatically resubmit your information for you.

More or less because you used javascript to submit the form and now that data is not available when you press the back button.

what can be done to avoid this except avoiding the javascript.

Thanks,
Neeraj.

at my system..i think this is happening on this site also pls. somebody check and correct me..

Thanks,
Neeraj.

More or less because you used javascript to submit the form and now that data is not available when you press the back button.

This would happen if you had no JavaScript in the page... happens to me all the time when I press back!

By pressing back, you are asking the POST request from your form to be re-submitted to the server. As the original message says, IE warns against this for POST methods only (since POST is non-idempotent) to prevent accidental submission of the data twice. If you really want to submit the data again, you can refresh while on the warning page.

Several patterns have been developed to ensure you don't see this, the most common being the Post/Redirect/Get... in essence it uses a GET redirect so the POST request is 'lost' from the browser's history, thus preventing re-submission of the form. For example, see:

http://www.theserverside.com/patterns/thread.tss?thread_id=20936
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=29758

I think Bear also wrote an article on this pattern a while ago as well, but I can't find a link to it right now...

Article.