Laravel logout fail on pressing back button

Question

On logout from my Laravel application using the Laravel logout method:

public function getLogout() 
    {
       Auth::logout();
       return Redirect::to(\         


        

Answer 1

This isn't actually what you think it is.

The back button on a browser fetches the last page in its cache for you.

If you must really prevent this, then you have two options:

1. Disable caching (usually a bad idea). See How to control web page caching, across all browsers? for that.
2. Have a JavaScript keep-alive to a resource in the page and redirect the user if this keepalive shows the user is not logged in.

Personally I'd just blame caching and ignore it. There's also a third option: using the HTML5 history API, but that's probably way over the top.