Re: Enforce reloading of page when using the back-button -Forwarded

>This means that is you return a "220 O.K." the browser must treat it like a 
>200 O.K. except for the fact that it must not cache the page. 
>We also had to add <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">  to the
>pages 
>( which had previously on it's own had not worked )
>We tested this and it works to break the back button for IE4, IE5.1, 
>Netscape 3.04 And 4.04. All of the pages made a new request to the
>server.
>Unfortunately IE 3.01 on NT 3.5 still cached the pages.

I vaguely recollect that you have a reason for forcing reloads  on
movements in the history list; but I hope you do realize that, in 
general, unasked for re-requesting due to  movements in the history
 is a major pain in the neck.
It's  something that I (as a server author) have had to try and "break"
(by adding expires of a several minutes to otherwise static documents). 
Not something I'm proud of, but better then the all too frequent behavior 
of most versions of netscape that I've used.



Daniel Hellerstein
danielh@crosslink.net
http://www.srehttp.org

Received on Thursday, 16 March 2000 23:56:47 UTC