Showing posts with label Disable Caching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Disable Caching. Show all posts

Monday, November 7, 2011

Disable caching (Browser back button problem)


When the user hit the back button a locally cached copy of the previous page is retrieved without notifying the server. As a result the Info is out of sync.

Solution 1 --> Disable caching (do not work for all browsers)
Code to disable caching (to be executed everytime thepage is loaded)

Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
Response.Cache.SetExpires(Now.AddSeconds(-1));   //--- (-1) means the page already expired
Response.Cache.SetNoStore();  //--tell the page not to cache the page
Response.AppendHeader("Pragma", "no-cache");  //---adds a header to the HTTP response object


Solution 2 --> Use timestamps or random numbers to track pages and detect when a page is current