Back Button and code execution

[John]

Hi,

I have a web form accounting app. In certain instances it
causes trouble if the user clicks the Back button. I've
read several posts that indicate that it is not
recommended (or even possible) to try to disable the Back
button. So, what I did was save a session variable with
the name of the current webform and then check this
session variable on page load to make sure the user was
not coming from a page that was not acceptable.

This works when I navigate to the page by typing in a URL
but is seems like when I click the Back button to go to a
page I should not go back to, the code behind is not
executed. Is there some way to force this to always be
executed?

Thanks,
John Ritchie

 

[Marina]

The problem is that the browser loads a cached version of the page - so it
doesn't go to the server at all.

You can try to set the expiration of the page to expire immediately, but I'm
not sure how well that works.

 

[Yan-Hong Huang[MSFT]]

Hello John,

Marina is right. Preventing it from caching may resolve this issue.

Besides, In order to prohibit a page from caching, you could also place following Meta tag in the head of the html.
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">

Hope that helps.

Best regards,
Yanhong Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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!Hi,
!
!I have a web form accounting app. In certain instances it
!causes trouble if the user clicks the Back button. I've
!read several posts that indicate that it is not
!recommended (or even possible) to try to disable the Back
!button. So, what I did was save a session variable with
!the name of the current webform and then check this
!session variable on page load to make sure the user was
!not coming from a page that was not acceptable.
!
!This works when I navigate to the page by typing in a URL
!but is seems like when I click the Back button to go to a
!page I should not go back to, the code behind is not
!executed. Is there some way to force this to always be
!executed?
!
!Thanks,
!John Ritchie
!