Page won't refresh

dustbuster

I have a script that redirects to another page.
When I hit the back button the page won't refresh. The same content is there.
Is there a way I can force the script to be reloaded from the server?

I am using the following header information

header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
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");

volleytotal_ch

I use this code here. works quite well!

header("Expires: ".gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s")." GMT"); // Always expired
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");// always modified 
header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");// HTTP/1.1 
header("Pragma: nocache");// HTTP/1.0

hth

dustbuster

That didn't seem to work for me.
Any suggestions?

Here is how my scripts work:

page1.php (display data and redirect to page2.php) -> page2.php (redirect to outside page)
If you are on outside_page.html and push the back button are sent back to page1.php. The old information is still there.

volleytotal_ch

why don't you use javasciript?

<body onload="document.refresh();">

dustbuster

That didn't work either

volleytotal_ch

how do you access the first page (page1.php)? by a link or by a form submit?

if you access the page the first page by a form, you can add the headers i posted before. if the user hits the back-button, a message will be displayed telling them that the page needs to be refreshed!

so, access to page1.php would look like:

<form action="page1.php" target="_self" method="post">
  <INPUT TYPE="image" VALUE="anyvalue" NAME="anyname" src="anyimage">
</form>

just create an image which will displayed as link to the new site.

on page1.php you can make a test, if the user (check IP) has already visited this page or just send him the blank page.

hth

pyro

Originally posted by volleytotal.ch
why don't you use javasciript?
<body onload="document.refresh();">
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It didn't work because the correct syntax is this

<body onLoad="document.location.reload()">

And even if you use the correct syntax, it will try to endlessly refresh your pages...

volleytotal_ch

Originally posted by pyro
And even if you use the correct syntax, it will try to endlessly refresh your pages... [/B]

i just figured it out myself - sorry!

but does the other idea work?

pyro

For me, the first method that you suggested works...You just need to make sure that it is the first thing on your page (otherwise it can't send header information).

dustbuster

The headers I posted are put first on my script before anything else.