Re: Lynx issues "Alert!: Reloading document. All form entries will be lost!" when using header('Cache-Control: no-cache');

David Woolley <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:48:56 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Message-ID <44b51632d05c674419fc6f545a6776375781aef6.camel@david-woolley.me.uk>
On Mon, 2026-07-27 at 08:28 -0400, Chuck Houpt via Lynx-dev wrote:
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> In the PHP, it looks like all the form elements use GET requests
> (action=3D"get"), but at least some should use POST because they are
> creating/modifying a resource. Could this be the underlying problem?
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I did wonder about that, but I don't think that anything should be
caching the completed form,  unless the server has sent an updated form
in response to an earlier submission.  Also, all the parameters should
be the same for a cache to return a cached version.