Go back and reload

[smorb]

Hi, I'm looking for a way to make something similar this "Thank you for posting, you will now be ..." messages here in Sitepointforums. Therefore I need to be send back (as "java script:history.back(1)", but not just go back but reloud this page ( otherwise the user would see the database output without his new input)
Thanx, Alex

[bman]

i had a similar problem when i was developing an online database.. if they went back it showed the "cached" content.. what i did to get around it was put these two tags in the head of the document that you are going back to..

<META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="0">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">

doing this should cause the page to have the New content when you use the history.go javascript.. well it worked for me anyway.

[scrubz]

I've found that the no-cache meta tags aren't always reliable, so I have another workaround. I use JavaScript to append a random number or part of a date string to the query string of the url. That way, the page shouldn't be pulled from cache, since a "new" page is requested each time.

[bman]

hmmm.. that sounds interesting.. i have always found them pretty reliable for what i am doing, but i guess thats because i am on a company intranet and i have pretty good control over what browser people use, and there settings, and all that wonderfull stuff..

[smorb]

Hey scrubz, could show me an expample please?
It sounds not bad, but anyway it doesn't sound as the top-solution . Does anyone know how this problem is solved here on sitepointforums ?