Article ID: 319792 - Last Review: February 1, 2007 - Revision: 3.10

Back Navigation on POST Causes Re-POST in Internet Explorer 6

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SYMPTOMS

You may experience a problem with your Web program that POSTs a form to a Web page by using Internet Explorer 6. For example:

Your program completes a back-end database query and returns results.
You click a link in the returned results to visit a page.
When you return back to the results page, you may receive the following warning message:
res://mshtml.dll/repost.htm

message (Warning, page has expired, you must refresh...).

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RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Internet Explorer 6. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

328548 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328548/EN-US/ ) How to Obtain the Latest Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack

The English version of this fix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

   Date       Time   Version        Size     File name
   ----------------------------------------------------
   25-Jun-02  13:55  6.0.2718.2400  481,280  Urlmon.dll

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1.

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