Erasing form field data after submission? 1

[WAHMom]

My employer had me develop a form for secure information submission utilizing a secure server and certificate. This form would likely be used at a group pc and the information to be submitted is confidential. They want to prevent anyone from reviewing the data by pressing the "back" button later. Short of asking the user to press "back" themselves and then use the "reset" button to delete the data, what can I do? I have searched and found no method to do this. Even a NASA webpage urged their own users to go back and erase their data after submission. Is this request that unusual?

Thanks for any help you can give!

 

[onpnt]

not unusual at all.
Although this is a caching problem
you can try setting the page to no-cache with a meta tag to clear the values when the back button is used.
<META HTTP-EQUIV=&quot;Pragma&quot; CONTENT=&quot;no-cache&quot;>

one other thing. I kept this in my favorites for a reason and this was the reason.
read

http://wp.netscape.com/security/notes/index.html

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[onpnt]

actually add these to the page as well
<META HTTP-EQUIV=&quot;Expires&quot; CONTENT=&quot;0&quot;>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=&quot;Cache-Control&quot; CONTENT=&quot;no-cache, must-revalidate&quot;>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=&quot;Pragma&quot; CONTENT=&quot;no-cache&quot;>


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[WAHMom]

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!!!!!!!

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[onpnt]

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