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Ok, I thought this would be simple, but apparently not. I want to expire pages that my CGI sends to the browser. This is my current code: 
print header(
    -type    => 'text/html',
    -expires => 'now'
    );

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And when called from the shell it prints, as expected: 
Expires: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 17:19:12 GMT
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 17:19:12 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

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But when I run the program in a browser, it doesn't at all do what I expect. Now, maybe that's the problem: what I want is for the page to expire and, instead of showing a cached version when the user hits "Back" or "Forward," actually call and run the program again. What the browser (multiple browsers on multiple platforms) does is politely scroll back and forth through its history.

I've tried setting "-expires" to "-1d", and leaving it out entirely, with the same (zero) effect. There are other ways I can solve this problem, but cache-control seems one of the better ones. Any advice from the Monks on how to get this working?

Thanks!
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In reply to Expiring CGI pages by legLess

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