Node.js and Express session handling - Back button problem

Question

I have a restricted area \'/dashboard\' in my Express application. I use a very small function to limit the access:

app.get(\'/dashboard\', loadUser, functi         


        

Answer 1

Josh's answer sadly didn't work for me. But after some searching I found this question: What's the best way to deal with cache and the browser back button?

and adopted the answer there to this node.js/express problem. You just have to change the following line

res.header('Cache-Control', 'no-cache');

to

res.header('Cache-Control', 'no-cache, private, no-store, must-revalidate, max-stale=0, post-check=0, pre-check=0');

Now, everytime I use the browser back button, the page is reloaded and not cached.

* update for express v4.x *

// caching disabled for every route
server.use(function(req, res, next) {
  res.set('Cache-Control', 'no-cache, private, no-store, must-revalidate, max-stale=0, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
  next();
});

// otherwise put the res.set() call into the route-handler you want