Disable Browser Cache for Logged In Users

You can’t.

Thanks for the reply Destac. So what do I do if I have a membership plugin and the cached pages are displayed to users after they login? The browser cache is causing all the problems, how do I get passed it?

If you have the page cache module running make sure its set to disable for logged in users.

If that doesn’t work then it might very well lie with the browser cache settings and I would try disabling the expires headers to see if that resolves the issue.

I will try this now, thanks!! Is it possible to force a clear all cache after user logs in?

Disabling for logged in users doesn’t work. I will try the headers although this will affect the performance of the website. If I disable the browser cache everything works as it should.

Yes the browser cache will affect your users so don’t disable it entirely. Things like the gzip compression need to stay however the cache features might not be needed.

I will try disabling the headers now. Can you tell me what you mean by express headers? The expiry and Etags?

Expires headers tell the browser how often a resource such as an image might be updated. Very rarely do we upload an image with the same file name so we can tell the browser to keep it for a long time.

Etags are a mechanism web servers and browsers use to determine whether a component in the browser’s cache matches one on the origin server.

Thanks for the explanation. So I can forfeit both? I will try it soon. got too many users online now.

Did you try and can i get a progress report?

I am sorry for the late reply. It doent seem to work. All I need is for logged in users not to be shown cached pages. I do want new content to displayed when it is published for everyone by the browser cache is causing all the problems because when I disable it everything works as it should but it comes with a price as you know.

What else can I do? I really appreciate your assistance.

I tried removing the expired headers from posts and pages, used the max seconds validation but its not working.

Uncheck the cache control header

I know I didn’t post anything for a while, sorry. The changes I made fixed the issue on mobile browsers and desktop firefox, IE works some times. But in Google Chrome it is still showing cached pages after I cleared the cache. I know its the browser cache and I just cant get it to show the new content.

Although i can give u an htaccess solution server headers give the browser permission to do things, but don’t actually require the browser to do them. (ex: the FF UI gives the user fine-tuning choices– Once per session, Every time I view the page, When the page is out of date (default), or Never.) Also, a “no-cache” header from the server will prevent caching of the new version, but will not flush the old version out of the browser cache. The solution has to happen on the client side and involves useless-but-unique query strings to the URL