Problem with IE on Mac (Back Button)

This is really urgent

[dhuparmanish]

Hi,

I have an application with jsp at the presentation layer having the struts framework, and EJB's at the application layer.

When on any jsp page say for example a search page, I select parameters from the drop down, etc and click submit, I reach to the result page.

After this I press the back button, to my utter astonishment every thing on this page becomes clickable even the static labels, the drop downs and the lists, and the page gets submitted on the click of these (static labels and drop downs and lists.) and takes to 404 error. This problem is only there on MACINTOSH OS.

If I refresh the page after pressing the back button it works fine for me and only the expected links are clickable.

This is a real urgent situation for me, and any pointers on this would be of great help.

Thanx in advance

Manish Dhupar

[rocknbil]

Does your code validate on this page? It's entirely possible an improperly nested form or link tag could be giving you trouble. MSIE, in spite of all the bashings and malice, generally "allows" code errors as a page loads whereas NN/FF for Mac will freeze, choke, or unexpectedly quit with such errors. Have you viewed it in another browser for Mac?

Worked a lot with Macs and have never seen that.

[dhuparmanish]

Hi thanx for your reply ..

This problem is not coming on NN, and is happening on most of the pages of my application.

On most of the pages I have no validation, still this problem is coming.

And more over if it would be problem of improper closed links, it would have given this on the first load of the page, this only comes when the user presses the back button......

I am really stuck and could not get forward with this.

Thanx

Manish Dhupar

[tedster]

On most of the pages I have no validation...

I think rocknbil is refering to validating the HTML markup on the pages you go to with the back button:

[validator.w3.org...]

If the mark-up doesn't validate, it can cause problems on some browsers but not others. Validating your mark-up is the best first step when you're debugging browser behaviors.

[edited by: tedster at 12:32 am (utc) on Feb. 12, 2005]

[dhuparmanish]

This does not seem to have solved the problem...I have tried this too.....and the page looks good through the validator.

[tedster]

I hear you. And different browsers on different OS do handle the Back Button differently - although this behavior does sound pretty wild.

Have you experimented with a no-cache on the pages that cause trouble?

[dhuparmanish]

Yes the no cache option has also been tried, but it seems that it does not work either.