Web page must delete itself

RichardJones · May 31, 2002

Hi,

I need make a web page that will delete itself when the client unloads it, but I cannot get it to work.

Any help please.

trollacious · May 31, 2002

Javascript cannot make web pages delete themselves. You'd have to do that with client-side scripting. Or did you mean you wanted the web page to close itself? If it'd the only browser window open, the viewer will get a message that the page wants to close the program, and they get to choose to allow that or not.

starway · May 31, 2002

You probably wanted to prevent your page from being cached.
In order to do it add the following line to the <head> section:

<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">

good luck

RichardJones · May 31, 2002

no i really need the page to be deleted off the web server after it has been viewed.

It will be an automatically generated page made just for each request each time.

trollacious · May 31, 2002

If you use a script to generate the page, then it will never actually be on the server, so won't need to be deleted. What do you use to generate the page?

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Web page must delete itself

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