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

Mike via Lynx-dev <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:24:44 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-07-27 21:48, David Woolley wrote:
> On Mon, 2026-07-27 at 08:28 -0400, Chuck Houpt via Lynx-dev wrote:
>> In the PHP, it looks like all the form elements use GET requests
>> (action="get"), but at least some should use POST because they are
>> creating/modifying a resource. Could this be the underlying problem?
>>
> 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.

David, what do you mean by

> (...) unless the server has sent an updated form in response to an earlier submission

?

And do you mean query parameters?