Hello All:

This is a weird problem I am facing on IE.

I have a servlet which is invoked by the doGet() method. This servlet
has a FORM which has few fields. One of the field has a hyperlink which
makes a window.open() call for Onclick. This pop-up allows a user to
search for some value. The result of the search is displayed in a
SELECT box. Based on the value selected in this SELECT box, the field
in the servlet that called this pop-up gets populated. After this is
done, I close this pop-up & click on the proceed button of the FORM
(using POST) which takes us to another servlet. Then when I click on
the back button, the fields on the form which were populated are gone.

I have made the following analysis:
(i) On clicking the back button, a request is sent to the server.
(ii) It works on FireFox & not on IE
(iii) If I do not use the hyperlink to bring the pop-up, and then I
click on proceed and then back, the fields do not vanish.
(iv) I tried using http://www.ggogle.com to the call on window.open().
Does not help
(v) The very action of using pop-up by clicking on it causes this
problem

Any help or tips in this regard would be helpful.

Thanks in advance.