Why is cache control not working?

Question

I set the cache control to "no-cache" and "max-age=0" still when I click on back button of the browser it shows the previous page. Actually the problem is when we login from login page and then it gets login to the main page but if we hit back button then it again shows the login page.Thats why i want to apply cache-control to no-cache but it is not working. Is there any other option to do it. What I've done is as follows I added these two meta-tag to head section of page :

<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="max-age=0"/>
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache"/>

Thanks in advance.

Disableing cache is covered well here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1341089/using-meta-tags-to-turn-off-caching-in-all-browsers — jeremyjjbrown, Feb 07 '14 at 04:14
Actually the problem is when we login and then it gets login to the main page but if we hit back button then it again shows the login page. — user3141687, Feb 07 '14 at 04:17
Thats why i want to apply cache-control to no-cache but it is not working — user3141687, Feb 07 '14 at 04:18
Cache control doesn't control navigation. It makes the browser download the page again. — jeremyjjbrown, Feb 07 '14 at 04:19

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 07 '14 at 04:22

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I had the same problem in one of my javascript project, please pick this code if useful to resolve your issue, this is one of the way to handle browser back button

<script type="text/javascript">
        window.history.forward();
        function noBack(){
            window.history.forward();
        }
</script>

<body onload="noBack();">

answered Feb 07 '14 at 04:22

Sunil Kumar

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but this script is working only for chrome not for other browsers. – user3141687 Feb 10 '14 at 12:29
there could be a conflict with other functions please debug, for me it worked in all webkit browsers even IE. – Sunil Kumar Feb 11 '14 at 03:47
Try adding this – Sunil Kumar Feb 13 '14 at 11:12
The problem is if the user disables JS. – another Dec 15 '16 at 10:38

Why is cache control not working?

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