Actually using javascript it is possible although probably not recommended and again can not be guaranteed to work on all browsers.
-----Original Message----- From: Rob Coops [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 November 2008 10:42 To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: Reg : Browser Back Button On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Anusha Krishna chand < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > Is it possible to perform some action when we click on back button > of the browser. I need to call a script when i click on back button of the > browser using perl script... > Is there any browser that sends a signal to your server when a user clicks the back button? Or is there any client side script that can detect this for you? The answer to the first question is: No. The answer to the second question is as far as I am aware: No. So that means that the answer to your question is unfortunately: No. What you might be able to so is keep track of where the user was last in the session, and then on the page that they navigate to take an action based on the location they came from, btu that can quite quickly become messy as a user might type a URL directly which might mean the new page is not the previous page but four pages back or a completely different unrelated page. You could also consider that if you need to take an action based on the back button then you need to alter your design since this should not be needed, looking at al kinds of web tool kits using ajax and other "cool" words. You can see many examples of frameworks that manage to handle the back button gracefully, even though most web developers will tell you that the back button is the one thing that all browsers have and that is just as hard to code for in every single one of them. This e-mail is from the PA Group. For more information, see www.thepagroup.com. This e-mail may contain confidential information. Only the addressee is permitted to read, copy, distribute or otherwise use this email or any attachments. If you have received it in error, please contact the sender immediately. Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is personal to the sender and may not reflect the opinion of the PA Group. Any e-mail reply to this address may be subject to interception or monitoring for operational reasons or for lawful business practices. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
