It seems that IE6 ignores any form of cache invalidation sent via http headers, I've tried setting Pragma to No Cache and setting Cache Expiration to the current time, yet in IE6, hitting back will always pull up a cached version of a page I am working on.
Is there a specific HTTP Header that IE6 does listen too?
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
should fix it. From classic ASP this is done with Response.Expires=-1
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Keep in mind when testing that just because your server is serving pages with caching turned off doesn't mean that the browser will obey that when it has an old cached page that it was told was okay to cache. Clear the cache or use F5 to force that page to be reloaded.
Also, for those cases where the server is serving cached content it you can use Ctrl+F5 to signal the server not to serve it from cache.