Servlet \ IE Address Bar

Hi,
I have a page in which users fill out a form and then ithey press the send button. The send button generates a request to a servlet via the GET method and passes it all the arguments. Now the user is taken to another page (LETS call it 'PAGE A'). This 'PAGE A' is dynamically generated by the servlet (through println statements). Now here is the problem, on this page the browser address bar shows the servlet along with the arguments . Now if a user hits refresh , the arguments are passed to the servlet AGAIN. I want to stop this form hapening. Therefore, right now I am foucssing on using something which puts clears the browser bar and instead puts dummy arguments to the servlet. The servlet would catch those dummy argumetns and nothing when that happens. Any ways to do this OR other ideas and suggestions are most welcome.
NOTE: Including some sort of pageID in the argument list isnot an option.

I forgot to post one additional thing. I dont know whay the following this wold not work with the servlets:
HttpServletResponse.sendRedirect(HttpServletResponse.encodeRedirectURL("yourURL"));.
Also, what would be he procs and cons of using the above sttement to put a dummy argument and if the user hits a refresh, it could be caught as a filter and then

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