Returning to previous page

[Alan Richardson]

Hi folks,

This seems to be a relatively simple problem but being somewhat new to JSP I'm not sure how this is typically handled.

Basically is there a way in JSP to return to the previous page (rather than using Javascript)? I want to place 'Back' buttons on pages, and more importantly I have an error-handling page, which in some circumstances I would like to return the user to the page they were previously viewing.

[Ben Souther]

You could store your own history stack in session and add a link to the previous page from the stack to each page.

[Ben Souther]

There is also the "referer" header variable.

[Alan Richardson]

Thanks Ben

The referer variable is exactly what I need