I only have it on my modified sites because i have the comment form on story.main, which is a sensible in terms of interaction design.

but why is it an application design error? is the redirect by ie or mozilla a bug? what would be a good solution? action urls in the form?

i actually wouldn't waste to much time with netscape 4.x users since mozilla is heading towards 1.0.

but the current 302 page looks like a server error. how hard is it to give the text a positive vibe?

without body, so it's not that simple. It would require changing the functionality of Helma's res.redirect() function. Currently res.redirect() resets the response body.

who creates the 302 pages? apache?

calling res.redirect() in Helma throws an exception which causes the script execution to be interrupted. The response is reset and an empty 302 page is returned. I don't know if Apache generates any body for these redirect responses or if the text comes out of Netscape 4. I guess it would be possible to send a body along with a redirect() response. If you really want to know, check out the HTTP specs.

but i don't know if it is worth the fuss. i thought it was as easy as exchanging two sentences somewhere.

however, i'm still interested in learning why a redirect to the same page is bad application design.