When someone tries to GET your POST page

[Tonearm]

Whenever a form is POSTed on my site, the resultant page in the address bar is always "/posted". Sometimes a user will bookmark this "page" or try to GET it in another fashion, and they are met with my standard 404 page. I can't think of a better way to handle this. Has anyone else?

[physics]

I think the best way would be to alter the code so that you use GET on pages that people want to (and should be able to) bookmark. Short of that you could set something up so that if someone gets to the /posted page and the POST info is empty then display a custom error page explaining that they can't bookmark these sorts of pages...

[jomaxx]

If it's a "thank you" kind of page, why not redirect to the homepage instead? But I agree with the previous poster, use GET whenever it makes sense. I often see pages that I want to either bookmark or link to, and can't because the developer used POST for some reason.

[kaled]

Presumably, the posted page was generated from a form on another page - rather than generate a 404, why not redirect the user to the other page. You could even use ?postedfrom=anotherpage.php in your urls. This could even work with multi-level forms (that use different urls) but you should ensure that the redirect goes straight to the first form in the chain rather than using multiple redirects.

Kaled.

[Tonearm]

Good ideas, thanks guys.