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Asked: 2026-05-22T22:57:35+00:00

There is a particular page that I would like the browser to always load,

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There is a particular page that I would like the browser to always load, particularly when the user presses the browser back button to get to it.

So I use the following ‘Cache-Control’ directive in the header for this page (taking the PHP directly from my code).

$headers['Cache-Control'] = 'no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0';

This works for FF, IE and Chrome, but Safari (5.0.1) seems to ignore the directive and fails to reload the page (across multiple users, so it doesn’t seem to be a setup specific problem). Searching hasn’t revealed any known bugs, so I’m assuming there is something amiss on my end.

Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Update: just found this answer on SO.

Safari browser ignoring my no-cache

Haven’t tried it yet, but looks promising. Very strange that it is an addition to the body tag, so Im skeptical.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The answer is to include the following attribute in the body tag to force Safari to reload the page:

    onunload=""

    As in:

    <body onunload="">

    I found this here: Safari browser ignoring my no-cache

    Which in turn got it from this thread: Is there a cross-browser onload event when clicking the back button?

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