IE6 wrecks Struts as a webapp platform

[jalal ud-din]

I didn't expect this.

After all my lovingly crafted work. I switch back to IE 6.028 and guess what?

Not only does it not cache pages with forms in them, it makes you click through 2 ugly screens to resubmit.

For struts, which relies heavily on form submission, this is pure death.

For instance, I'm viewing my portfolio, click a button to see the obligatory chart - hit the back button and woops! its all gone. Click forward - thats gone too.
Joe Public gives up at this stage.

It will be impossible to write commercial webapps in struts if this continues to be IE behaviour.

gutted.

[Peter Storch]

Hi have you read about this pattern / practice?:

Redirect Aft Post

[jalal ud-din]

Hi Peter.

While that's a good pattern, it doesn't solve the 'back button' problem.

Though I don't have the time (I'll be too busy stripping all the forms out of my Struts application), whoever writes an ActionForm that strips the params out of an ordinary http GET - they will be doing the world a great big favour.