Stop the ability to Refresh the page
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Topic: Stop the ability to Refresh the page
Posted By: silvaduro
Subject: Stop the ability to Refresh the page
Date Posted: 21 August 2003 at 3:36am
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Hey, In an ASP page I want to be able to stop the ability to refresh, i.e. either bring up a dialog or just not do anything when F5, the Refresh Button and Ctrl+R are pressed. Can anyone help me? ~silva |
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Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 21 August 2003 at 8:41am
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its not possible ------------- Contribute to the working anarchy we fondly call the Internet |
Posted By: 3BEPb
Date Posted: 21 August 2003 at 9:49am
| Silvaduro, there are some ways how to trick your lame users, however any more or less designated user will get anything he need (client side, I mean :)), including reload. |
Posted By: zMaestro
Date Posted: 21 August 2003 at 3:46pm
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Isn't there a way even through JavaScript? I think something passed through me that assigns another job for the F5 key other than refresh!!! but Im not sure |
Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 21 August 2003 at 6:03pm
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your talking about Internet Explorer assigned keys. The F5 key is assigned refresh by windows. I would put my money on MorningZ's answer. Besides, why would you ever want to disable refresh. ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 21 August 2003 at 10:03pm
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Anything you're likely to do to prevent a refresh will be like disabling right click - very annoying to your users and easily beaten. ------------- 
Lead me not into temptation... I know the short cut, follow me. |
Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 21 August 2003 at 10:44pm
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and you are NOT going to stop the "refresh" button on the top of an IE (or netscape or opera) window..... there is no script to take over someone's browser functionality ------------- Contribute to the working anarchy we fondly call the Internet |
Posted By: zMaestro
Date Posted: 22 August 2003 at 1:57am
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a copy can be disabled even when clicking Edit | Copy, it appears a disabled item. a Select of Text can also be disabled.
Stopping Refresh function is useful for example to prevent a form from being submitted twice.
there are scripts that can for example when pressing Control+H takes you to the Home Page, and so on.. that's what I meant by assigning a certain function to a certain Key. Control+C can be disabled by a JavaScript Code.
I didn't say F5 can be disabled, I am just thinking in a load voice. |
Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 22 August 2003 at 6:02am
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as said.... regardless if you could or couldn't intercept F5 (that is possible), you are not going to be able to stop the "refresh" button on the browser bar itself ------------- Contribute to the working anarchy we fondly call the Internet |
Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 22 August 2003 at 8:20am
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if you don't want to submit a form twice then redirect away from the processing page as soon as it's processed. ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: b_bonnett
Date Posted: 22 August 2003 at 5:38pm
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Or you could do what Bruce has done with these forums - use Javascript to disable the submit button once the form has been submitted:
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Posted By: zMaestro
Date Posted: 23 August 2003 at 12:58am
Disabling Submitting twice is a different case...
Consider you already submitted a form, that for example add records to a database, and when the process is completed you refreshed!!!
the form will be submitted again and will duplicate the entry in the database....
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b_bonnett wrote:Posted By: zMaestro
Date Posted: 23 August 2003 at 1:03am
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a good idea to consider but also sometimes it takes a long time to a form to be submitted (Server time) as for example sending mail to a mailing list or so on, so the user may think that the page needs to be refreshed, and so Refresh before the page being redirected...
in all ways... we were thinking on how to stop page refreshing... either we will find a use for it or not
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... but as you all aggreed... "It is a weak case"... I surrender 
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