How do I remove a page from the browser history?

asp.net browser-history
Rory Becker picture Rory Becker · Nov 14, 2008 · Viewed 31.9k times · Source

I have an have an ASP.Net page which contains a button. This Page contains a ServerSide Paypal button.

When pushed my server does various clever things on the back end and then rewrites the response as a form and some javascript which posts this form to paypal..

This all works great.

However, if the user then elects to click back, they will arrive at my generated self-posting form and that will forward them again to Paypal.

I thought if I could find a way to have my generated form page not exist in the history, then this will solve my problem. but I have no idea how to correct this.

How can I remove my page from the history or just have it never appear?

Update: Thanks to all... Those are some great answers. Upvoted all good ones but went with splattne on account of clever use of hidden field rather than cookies for basis of decision.

Answer

Eugene Yokota picture Eugene Yokota · Nov 14, 2008 
window.location.replace(URL);

window.location:

replace(url)

Replace the current document with the one at the provided URL. The difference from the assign() method is that after using replace() the current page will not be saved in session history, meaning the user won't be able to use the Back button to navigate to it.

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