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As the title says, I need to stop a user's browser from caching the form they've submitted.

Is there any way of doing this?

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Try this:

<form method="post" autocomplete="off">
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Hi vibhaJ

I'm a little confused by your suggestion. Could you explain how turning auto complete off stops the form from being cached?

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The 'cache-control' HTTP header is used to instruct web clients on resource caching.

You could try setting this with a meta tag in the header your HTML page, like....

<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache" />

... or possibly set the header for a resource from within your web server's config.

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Hi LaxLoafer

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a try.

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