[thelist] Not logging page in browser history - How?

Jason Handby jason.handby at corestar.co.uk
Fri Dec 7 10:09:00 CST 2007


> I came across an interesting question today.
> Someone asked my co-worker why was it that when he did banking with
> citibank none of the pages (behind the password) were stored in the
> browser's history while when he did banking with another bank all the
> pages were in the history, even those behind the password.
> Is there a specific setting on the web server that can be turned on
> and off for not allowing a browser to log on a visit to certain pages
> (or all pages)??
> PHP function?
> Meta?

One way to do this is to use Javascript on your page navigation buttons:

	window.location.replace("newpage.html");


The replace() function does not create a new entry in the browser
history list.




Jason



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