Dear Jim,
If your credit card details were on a public terminal, wouldn't you want
"those engineers" to expire the page before someone came and hit the back
button and stole them?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Preston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: Expiring page
> There are some things in life that you just can't control and can't have
the
> way you want, period, no matter how much you may want it. This rule
applies
> to most subsets of life, including software engineering. This is one of
> those things. You just don't have that much control over the browser. Live
> with it. (One is tempted to ask why you so adamantly want to force a blank
> page on your users, especially when all they would have to do is hit the
> Reload button anyway, but I've learned that asking such questions is as
> pointless as trying to get total control of the browser.)
>
> --Jim Preston
>
> <rant>
> Personally, if I put on my user hat, I don't want "those engineers" to
have
> that kind of control over my browser. Who the heck are you to tell me that
I
> can't go back and view a previous page when I want to?
> </rant>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mahesh Kuklani
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 10:18 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Expiring page
>
>
> With this i get my page refreshed ,i do not want the page to get reloaded
i
> want it to do nothing i.e. show a blank page if i go back.
>
> Mahesh.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manisha Sharma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 11:51 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Expiring page
>
>
> Some one had posted this in the forum before. Try it.
>
> Set these headers:
> response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");
> response.setHeader("Pragma", "no-cache");
> response.setHeader("Expires", "-1");
>
> And put this in the <head> tag of your page
> <DEFANGED_meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mahesh Kuklani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 3:46 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Expiring page
>
>
> Hi all,
> How do i expire a page i.e. if the user clicks on back button he
> shouldn't be able to see anything. I am using
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <DEFANGED_META http-equiv="expires" content="Tue, 20 Aug 1996 14:25:27
GMT">
> </head>
>
> in jsp but it's not working.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Mahesh.
>
>
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