How to force a webpage to not save in history.

BurhanKhan · June 8th, 2004, 07:09 PM

Hi:

     I have a simple static web site, but it is updated daily.
     The users of this website are not able to see my updated website unless thay click on refresh button.

     Actually, webpage is stored in system history, and when user open the same page, browser bring that page from system history. So user are not able to see my updated pages.

     How to force a web page to not save in system history.

Thanks

Snib · June 8th, 2004, 07:29 PM

Try <meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;url=wherever.php>

Or location.replace("wherever.php");

HTH,

Snib

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richard.york · June 8th, 2004, 08:23 PM

It looks like you don't want your page to be cached.. on the client-side that can be done with this meta tag, insert between <head></head> tags.

Code:

<meta http-equiv="PRAGMA" content="NO-CACHE" />

Alternatively if you are using a server-side language you can also do this in the HTTP headers. This is the PHP version. But you can make HTTP header changes with any server-side language, the headers will be the same.

Code:

header("Expires: Mon, 14 Jul 1789 12:30:00 GMT");    // Date in the past
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");  // HTTP/1.1
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
header("Pragma: no-cache");                          // HTTP/1.0

Regards,
Rich

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