How can I detect if the user is refreshing the page or has arrived from an internal link?

Asked Jan 15 '15 at 11:27

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I have a Toast Message that has some useful information when someone reaches a page. But it's set up that even when I refresh it shows up.

How can I make it so that it only appears when you arrived on the page from a link-click and not from a page refresh? Is this possible? Would differentiating between a 200 and a 304 on some site-wide resource work?

asked Jan 15 '15 at 11:27

AncientSwordRage

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If you are wanting to use client-side script to do this your going to need to set a flag in a cookie or if outdated browsers are not supported use localStorage. – Simon Staton Jan 15 '15 at 11:28
@SimonStaton if that's the best way. How would I do that? – AncientSwordRage Jan 15 '15 at 11:30
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You have to try it yourself first ;) http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_cookies.asp – Simon Staton Jan 15 '15 at 11:35
This also looks like a good place to check: http://stackoverflow.com/q/27778749/1075247 – AncientSwordRage Jan 15 '15 at 14:11

How can I detect if the user is refreshing the page or has arrived from an internal link?

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