How does IsPostback technically work?

Question

I\'m currently having a strange issue whereby all browsers except from Google Chrome are registering a call to IsPostback within a Page_Load event as true when I click an as

Answer 1

The page looks for the existence of a __PREVIOUSPAGE form value.

From Reflector:

public bool IsPostBack
{
    get
    {   //_requestValueCollection = Form or Querystring name/value pairs
        if (this._requestValueCollection == null)
        {
            return false;
        }

        //_isCrossPagePostBack = _requestValueCollection["__PREVIOUSPAGE"] != null
        if (this._isCrossPagePostBack)
        {
            return true;
        }

        //_pageFlags[8] = this._requestValueCollection["__PREVIOUSPAGE"] == null
        if (this._pageFlags[8])
        {
            return false;
        }

        return (   ((this.Context.ServerExecuteDepth <= 0) 
                || (   (this.Context.Handler != null) 
                    && !(base.GetType() != this.Context.Handler.GetType())))
                && !this._fPageLayoutChanged);
    }
}