I have this page, let's call it index.php
index.php
has a list of users and a remove user button. That will take them to removeUser.php
And the last line of removeUser.php
is to go back to index.php
But in Firefox, it still looks the same, a normal user won't know how to do a hard-refresh or clear the cache every time the page loads manually.
I have tried
CACHE-CONTROL NO-CACHE,NO-STORE
and also
PRAGMA NO-CACHE,NO-STORE
I even tried setting EXPIRY 0
in the META tags, none of these help. Although it all works perfectly in Chrome and other browsers, it's just Firefox that has this problem.
These are my headers, requested by @alex
http://localhost/xChange/home.php
GET /xChange/home.php HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://localhost/xChange/home.php
Cookie: laobgcidne=yes; eambacidle=inaresh.online@gmail.com
Cache-Control: max-age=0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:28:25 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) PHP/5.3.0
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.0
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate
Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Content-Length: 6130
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html
Send a expires header for a date in the past.
header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
Your headers look pretty good. I don't know what Firefox is doing.
You could do this on the link, to make sure it always downloads a fresh copy.
<?php $link = 'home.php'; ?>
<a href="<?php echo $link . '?m=' . filemtime($link); ?>">Home</a>