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optionsix
optionsix

Reputation: 956

sending user back to previous page after submitting web form on current page, .net

On a .net site, is there an easy way to send someone back to the last page they were on before they posted back a form on the current page without some sort of overwrought breadcrumb system? I know that sounds a bit confusing, but lets say you're on Page1.aspx. You go to Page2.aspx, which has a web form. You fill out the web form which posts back to itself. After the postback, I want to send them back to whatever page they were on first, in this case : Page1.aspx. Page1.aspx is obviously variable.

I started playing with some javascript using history.go(), but I wasn't able to get it to work properly. Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2615

Answers (3)

GitaarLAB
GitaarLAB

Reputation: 14645

You could pass the referrer (Page1.aspx) to Page2.aspx. Page2.aspx then uses a hidden input-field, containing the referrer.
When the visitor submits the form from Page2 (to itself), the form-handler then receives the referrer and could set it as a http-equiv="refresh" in the resulting page.

<html>    
  <head>      
    <title>Form Result</title>      
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;URL='Page1.aspx'" />    
  </head>    
  <body> 
    <p>Thank you for your input, you will automatically return to
       <a href="Page1.aspx/">the previous page in 5 seconds.</a>.</p> 
  </body>  
</html>

By changing the timeout to more than 0 seconds the user can still read the result before he is automatically sent back to the page he came from.

Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 0

Aristos
Aristos

Reputation: 66641

You can send the page that must return as a url parameter, just like login module do.

Eg, you go to the page2.aspx with this url page2.aspx?RetPage=Page1.aspx and when you finish with the page2, you get the RetPage and redirect to whatever value you have set there.

Upvotes: 0

IrishChieftain
IrishChieftain

Reputation: 15253

Use the Request.UrlReferrer Property as described here:

Navigate to Previous Page in ASP.NET(Request.UrlReferrer)

Upvotes: 1

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