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Martin
Martin

Reputation: 2017

Going back to submitted form in Firefox 10: Not-cached / expired warning

When I submit a form in Firefox 10.0.1 (e.g. editing an article on Wikipedia) and go back via the back button, I get a warning that the form is expired or not cached.

How can I disable that to behave like before (load filled form again)?

German error message: https://i.sstatic.net/4WrRf.png

Dokument erloschen

Dieses Dokument ist nicht mehr verfügbar.

Das angefragte Dokument ist nicht im Browser-Cache verfügbar.Als Sicherheitsmaßnahme fragt der Browser um vertrauliche Dokumente nicht automatisch erneut an.Klicken Sie "Nochmal versuchen", um das Dokument erneut von der Website anzufragen.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1082

Answers (2)

neb
neb

Reputation: 11

I have the same problem: the unsaved content of the form is lost when I get this warning. This was not the case with older Firefox versions (there I got a different warning and I could get back to my un-saved content)

At Mozillazine someone suggest that the website should add the header Cache-Control: max-age=600 to prevent this. Don't know if that's advisable or if it works.

Same at this thread at PHP Freaks.

Upvotes: 1

Jan
Jan

Reputation: 1049

As proposed by the guy from the mozillazine.org forum, I have tried the max-age setting within the cache-control, and it works indeed. However, it is up to the website developers to make this work, and it depends on the form if enabling the cache-control makes sense. Personally, I would turn this behaviour off within the Firefox configuration if I knew how to do this.

Upvotes: 1

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