[Zope] Newbie -- redirect to referring url.

[MehmetYousouf]

On Sunday 23 December 2001 01:09 pm, you wrote:
Thanks, that'll do the trick.... regarding telling people if it happened, I'm 
trying to tell them if it didn't happen but I'll take your suggestion on 
board.

Regards, Mehmet

> I recently did something like this. What I did was, on the form
> include a hidden input element named referer which held the
> url of the referring page so that after I was done I could
> send people back to where they came from. Something like:
>
> <input type="hidden" name="referer"
> value="<dtml-var "REQUEST['HTTP_REFERER']">">
>
> on the form, and
>
> <a href="&dtml-referer;">Return to where you were</a>
>
> in the action method. You might be able to get it to go there
> automatically with a
> <dtml-call "REQUEST.redirect(referer)"> (untested)
> but it seems (to me) like you might want to tell people that
> whatever they were trying to do actually happened...