Comments by Kosimek (Top 9 by date)

Peter, that is an unusual piece of English.
Perhaps, if you have nothing to contribute, you might go troll somewhere else. Does your mother know you visit adult websites?

For someone who is not only unprepared to even suggest a solution to my question that seems to consist of one line of code (see updated post), you certainly seem willing to spend a inordinate amount of your time responding to my post in the negative.
If this were a language website and someone asked help in translating a single paragraph into German, Dutch or whatever languages I happen to speak, I would not have a problem doing so to help out. I certainly would not rate the question as spam, abusive or inappropriate, because it is none of those, nor would I suggest to have him take a course to learn the language in question which would be absurd.

At least ppolymorphe, the first person to respond, provided some helpful links although they basically boil down to the latter, go learn javascript.

It's not like I asked anyone here to write me an app, so may I suggest that next time you come across a post like mine, rather than reporting it as spam, abusive or inappropriate and getting the question removed from the list so nobody else will see it, you just move on and leave it to others to respond in a more helpful manner. And please, save your time and try not to respond again.

@NotPoliticallyCorrect Because I received an email from the CodeProject stating:
"Your answer 'Populating an input field with multiple clicks in javascript' has been reported by Richard Deeming, Karthik Bangalore, NotPolitcallyCorrect and has been closed, with the reason being given as This post is spam, abusive or otherwise inappropriate."

There seems to be little point in keeping, what I considered a perfectly legitimate question, when some, including you, for some reason deemed it to be "spam, abusive or otherwise inappropriate"

The fact that you would even question my decision to remove the question, given that you are one of the people who deemed it so, is a mystery to me.

In addition, the email stated "Your article [...] will not be available in lists" which I can logically assume to mean that it cannot be found and therefore will not spur anyone else to actually offer a solution.

Bob, virtually all of the people asking this same question on a plethora of forums want the same result. Once logged out, you should not be able to see previously accessed pages and should be directed back to the login page. The redirect after clicking the Back button should only occur AFTER the logout has taken place and so preventing caching on every page after login is not a solution.

There really are no concepts to be "mixed up". The computer does not know who is clicking the Back button and therefore anyone having access to a user's computer can click the back button and, where confidential information has been shown to the authenticated user, can view that information.

Would you be okay with logging out of your Gmail account only to have someone else click the back button and see your mail? Of course not. I authenticate people in my applications and once they logout, click the back button and then click on any link in any of the previous pages they will be directed back to the login page. But that is not the issue. The previous pages (retrieved from cache) should not be visible to anyone.

Your assertion that "you only need server-side authentication" to prevent "other users" from seeing someone's information appears to show that you don't grasp the problem. Clicking the Back button does not involve the server-side, it only involves the client side over which you have no control. And that is exactly where the problem lies.

I have come across only one way that works flawlessly in Firefox (assuming that javascript has not been turned off). However, most restrictions and redirects you implement in IE and Chrome back to a login page can be overcome by rapidly clicking the back button. It will even get you past non-cached page error messages.

The real problem is in the lack of a unified mechanism (i.e. browser independent and platform independent) to be able to force a redirect to a specific page. The fact that there are no real standards for browsers in the first place (not a surprise, God forbid we'd have standards!) does not help either.

Of course what everyone's is looking for can be achieved. Financial websites can do it, Hotmail can do it, Gmail and many others can do it but, after having looked for cross-browser, cross-platform solutions for 2-1/2 years, I still have not found anything that does the job. Most proffered solutions do not work at all and the one I found that does work, does not work on all browsers.

So the question still stands, if you have a cross-browser, cross-platform solution (not a php, asp, .net solution etc.) please let me know. I am all ears!

As far as your original post goes. I am new to this forum but if the header says "Solution 3" and gets 5 stars, someone must have indicated it to be a solution, unless of course every response is marked as Solution which would be rather silly. Cheers.