Thursday, 1 August 2013

Browser back button issue after logout

Here are various ways of how one can do it:

Option #1: Set Response Cache settings in code-behind file for a page

// Code disables caching by browser.

Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
Response.Cache.SetExpires(DateTime.UtcNow.AddHours(-1));
Response.Cache.SetNoStore();

Option #2: Set META tag for HTTP cache settings in your ASPX page header

<META Http-Equiv="Cache-Control" Content="no-cache"/>
<META Http-Equiv="Pragma" Content="no-cache"/>
<META Http-Equiv="Expires" Content="0"/>


Option #3: Clear browser's history through JavaScript using script tag

//clears browser history and redirects url
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">
function ClearHistory()
{
     var backlen = history.length;
     history.go(-backlen);
     window.location.href = loggedOutPageUrl
}
</SCRIPT>


Option #4: Clear browser's history through JavaScript injecting through code-behind file via Response

protected void LogOut()
{
     Session.Abandon();
     string loggedOutPageUrl = "Logout.aspx";
     Response.Write("<script language="'javascript'">");
     Response.Write("function ClearHistory()");
     Response.Write("{");
     Response.Write(" var backlen=history.length;");
     Response.Write(" history.go(-backlen);");
     Response.Write(" window.location.href='" + loggedOutPageUrl + "'; ");
     Response.Write("}");
     Response.Write("</script>");
}

Option #5: Clear browser's history through JavaScript injecting through code-behind file via Page.ClientScript

Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(this.GetType(),"clearHistory","ClearHistory();",true);


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