conditional navigation problem

[a0000]

Hi all,
I have two pages.
The first one presents a menu referencing database objects
that the user can edit / delete; The second allows this editing or deleting.

I want to stop the user from going back to the first page after she/ he has used
the second page. How can this be done?

I have tried using history.previous to check the value of the calling page's url
but this method is unsatifactory as it depends on the user giving privilages.
I don't want to use cgi if possible nor do I want to use cookies.

I'd like the solution to be applicable as far a possible to ie as well as nestscape.


Has anyone got any Ideas???

thanks very much



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[NickBulka]

Without using cookies you're going to have a tough time. What's the reason you don't want them to return to the first page.

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[a0000]

NickBulka,

Thanks for your reply.
I don't really have a reason for not using cookies, it's just I was trying to find an alternative.

As regards CGI: I'm using CGI/DBI to get the stuff into / out of the database but I was hoping to handle this navigation problem client-side.

If there is no other way of doing it, I'll have to use cookies.

Any further suggestions?
thanks in anticipation
a0000


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