Loss of Form contents

[Derin]

I've looked through hundreds of threads in these forums but I couldn't find any hint for my problem.
I've got several form pages in php all working fine and handing the content all the way from the 1st to the last page. I got SSL installed on a solaris box and I'm using php4 and session management. All working fine.
The problem I have is in the very moment I want to go one page back on my form pages all contents is lost.
I can't figure out if this is a header cache issue or any other session problem or even a setting in IE5.

Anybody experienced similar problems before?

Thanks,
Axel

[PHPdev]

If you go back is it telling you that the page has expired or is the page loading and the form is just not filling with the data (which I will assume you have storred in a session variable).

Thanks

PHPdev

[Derin]

Sorry, I should have given the error message I got.
Yes, it says WARNING: Page has expired.
If I then refresh the page, as it suggests, the form is empty.

Thanks,
Axel

[_SuperString]

I had the same problem myself and it turned out it was the setting 'session.cache_limiter' in php.ini, Try changing its value like this:

session.cache_limiter = private, must-revalidate

hope this solves your problem.

[Derin]

Hi $Super_String,

thanks for the tip, I will try that right away.

Thanks,
Axel

[gutlass]

I've ran into the same problem on some projects. What I do is pass the variable back to the form that you just came from.

that way you don't run into any timeout problems.