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Posted by Jim Higson on 11/04/05 15:14
vampyreapocalypse@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a page connected to a database and using ASP and VBScript
> scripting. There is a variable that must be set on this page for the
> next page to load properly. When this page is accessed via a link the
> variable gets set and there is no problem. However if you are on the
> detail page and click the back button to the page that sets the
> variable, the variable does not get set because it isn't actually
> reloaded, just taken from the browsers cache. Is there a way using HTML
> (or any scripting language useable by HTML) to auto refresh the page
> once and once only?
If caching is the problem, it sounds like you need to set the HTTP headers
to expire pages immediately.
However, browsers cache pages for a good reason and this'd really slow
things down. If the site relies on things like if the user clicked back or
whatever maybe a rethink of your design is worth considering.
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