You can force a browser to think you're accessing a new URL (and thereby force it into the history) by adding a dummy "uniquifier" to the URL. As long as the URL "looks different" to the browser (i.e., it's not character-for-character identical), the browser will treat it as a "different page". Pages with uniquifiers get added to the history, and can be back-buttoned to.

Your server can completely ignore the uniquifier, as long as it sends a new one every time.Try something like this: http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi?u=438292& ..., and just keep changing the number. For forms, use a URL like this as the form's action: http://myserver.com/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi/u432443, which will do the same thing.

You have the disadvantage that the user can back-button to a page and then proceed "forward" again from there, generating the kind of problem you were speaking of, but you can (if you've got some kind of a session mechanism set up) remember the uniqifier from a "problem" page and skip doing the thing you don't want if the uniqifier is the one you remembered.

In reply to Re: Why does my script run again, when I refresh my results page? by pemungkah
in thread Why does my script run again, when I refresh my results page? by Anonymous Monk

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