I know there are ways to tell if an user has pressed the back button using Javascript, but is there a way to tell without resorting to Javascript? Is there a solution that involves just looking at referer URLs perhaps?
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I know there are ways to tell if an user has pressed the back button using Javascript, but is there a way to tell without resorting to Javascript? Is there a solution that involves just looking at referer URLs perhaps?
Without javascript no.
The problem is the back button will not guarantee you get a server hit. It can cache the page client side and even if it did hit the server (loading the page), then it would have the request from the initial hit not like it came from the page you were just on. The back button doesn’t add ‘referral’ information to the request. It just goes back to the last thing you did without sending the details of where you just were.
You need to handle this client side.