Make browser recognize new page on return from POST

I'm trying to figure out how to get a browser to update the page location on
return from a POST. In our case, the user submits some form information. We
then return a page that we wish to have the browser identify as a different
page from the one posted. This is because we have page-specific links on the
new page (a link to page-specfic help as one example). So we have the
following situation:

>From page1.html, the user does a POST (via a Submit button)
The server returns page2.html

The browser (both IE and Netscape) still identify the returned page as
page1.html.

I've tried various combinations of return status code (201 Created seemed
like the best bet, but I also tried 301 and 307) and variations on the
"Location:" and "Content-Location:" headers but have not been able to get
this to work. Using a return code of 307 did get the browser (IE) to change
the name of the returned page to "page2.html", but it then appeared to try
to redirect to the new page. I don't want it to do that, only to update it's
"name" for the page.

Any help?

Mark


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Mark Parenti
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Received on Friday, 16 November 2001 15:34:19 UTC