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I keep getting Warning: Page has Expired when I click back

Jul 30, 2004 5:19PM PDT

Hi, for the last 4 days, I get Page has expired when I click the back button. It's really annoying, because I lose my searches at many different sites.
I'm using IE 6 and have just gotten the most recent update, I did a disk cleanup, and checked to see that "do not save to encrypted pages" was disabled(it was) and I disabled "allow Meta refresh", but nothing works, after 5 or 10 uses, I start to get the warning again. Any suggestions?
Here's the warning:
Warning: Page has Expired The page you requested was created using information you submitted in a form. This page is no longer available. As a security precaution, Internet Explorer does not automatically resubmit your information for you.

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Re: I keep getting Warning: Page has Expired when I click ba
Jul 30, 2004 9:00PM PDT

Please note that just above the text editor (where you enter a question on the forum) is the following paragraph, and if certain information is not present in your question, our reply may not be of much help:

Tip: If you are asking for help to troubleshoot a computer-related problem, please be sure to include all the necessary information (ie: operating system, model number, hardware, software, etc) that will help others identify your problem for a speedy resolution.

1. In Internet Explorer, the browser refreshes pages when the Forward and Back buttons are used through the navigation history stack and always pulled from the cache. If there is corruption in the cache for any reason, the Back button may not work. To work around this problem, use the History bar to return to a Web page previously visited. To do so, click History on the toolbar, and then click the site wanted. Microsoft has confirmed this is a problem in Internet Explorer 5 which may be corrected by installing a newer version or perhaps updating to SP2.

2. In Microsoft Internet Explorer and you are unable to navigate back to the previous Web page when clicking the Back button, it loops endlessly between a Web page which cannot open a frameset Web page and occurs if the Web site author created a frameset by using a source (SRC) of http:///www.example.com, in which there is one extra (/) forward slash. The only means of correcting this problem is to inform the author of the Web site anomaly so they can investigate and perhaps find and remove a (/) forward slash from the frameset source, [Q298639].

3. Caveat: After Internet Explorer is configured to Check for newer versions of stored Web pages upon every visit to the page, the Web pages may not be properly refreshed. This behavior is most noticeable after using the Back button and it is suggested to click the button labeled Refresh, or simply press the F5 key. Otherwise, use the arrows in the Internet Explorer toolbar.

4. Supplemental reading: "WD2000: A Password Dialog Box Appears When You Click the Back Button in Internet Explorer (Q306534)."

5. To perhaps resove some of these issue, remove all Internet Explorer Setup files, and then reinstall, [Q318949].

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My opinion is "proper behaviour."
Jul 31, 2004 12:00AM PDT

Recent security issues with cached information may have lead MS to finally cure an EXPLOIT in regards to cached information.

From what I know, my outlook is that this behaviour is PROPER.

Bob