Re: Firefox reload page

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From: Dave Anderson (GTSPXOESSGOQ_at_spammotel.com)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:44:20 -0500

Dave Blair wrote:
> In firefox I can't get a page (which queries an SQL database and shows
> all the available records) to re-fresh with new updated data after a
> 'javascript:history.go(-4)' is used to return to the page after a new
> record is added...

Isn't that the correct behavior? Cache control is for subsequent *requests*.
You are not sending one.

    "History mechanisms and caches are different. In particular history
     mechanisms SHOULD NOT try to show a semantically transparent view
     of the current state of a resource. Rather, a history mechanism is
     meant to show exactly what the user saw at the time when the
     resource was retrieved."
    (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec13.html#sec13.13)

> Anyone any ideas as to how to force a complete reload.

Yes. Stop (ab)using history. Force the browser to send a request. Any of
these are options:

    Response.Redirect(...)
    window.location.replace(...)
    window.location = "..."
    <a href="...">Updated View</A> 

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