[WEB4LIB] Browser Back Button Failure - examples needed

[Donna Stewart]

Hi, Grace -

We've got a redirect screen that appears to disable the back button at:
http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/journ-t.html
The redirect became necessary when this incorrect URL was published in a
newsletter sent to the entire campus.  Although it will get folks to the
page we were publicizing, once you're there, there's no going back -  you're
endlessly redirected.

By the way, if anyone out there can help me to thwart Grace's plans yet
again, I'd sure appreciate it.  Was there a smoother way I could have dealt
with this problem?

Donna Stewart
Cleveland State University Library
Cleveland, Ohio
d.stewart at popmail.csuohio.edu


-----Original Message-----

If you know of any URLs for sites where the back button does not take you
back to your previous site, I would appreciate your sending that URL to me.

In my introductory Internet classes, I always show the students examples of
sites that "trap" the visitor.  I can then show them a variety of ways to
deal with this depending on how the site had "trapped" them.  During my prep
for a class  yesterday, I discovered that my last two remaining "opened new
browser" sites  have discontinued the practice.  My examples of frame sites
that require a right click of the mouse button to go back have also
diminished in numbers.

Examples of all kinds (frames where right click in frame to go back is
needed; new browser window opened, etc.) are appreciated.  It has occurred
to me that it might be more reliable if I were to create examples of each of
these myself on our server, but I hesitate doing this on a production
server.

Thanks for your help.

Grace Garbe
Systems Librarian/Webmaster
ZAI-AMELEX
Defense Systems Management College
Ft. Belvoir, VA