My site is constructed entirely of dynamic data, some of which changes based on user authentication. When a user "logs in" to the site, I show their new status with their user name in the page navigation bar. However when they visit a page they visited recently before authenticating (back button, etc), that page's version of the navigation bar will not be refreshed. What are some methods to force a refreshed page to the browser? The inverse is also true: if a user logs out, recent pages will still show authenticated from the cached version.
What technique can I use to always force a browser-side refresh/clear cache on any page on the website?
Thanks.
Nb: server side I am using eXist-db 4.7's login:set-user() to authenticate a user (i.e. "log them in") through the controller.
The best source I found for your problem was the following blog article that explains caching in a way that even I could understand: https://jakearchibald.com/2016/caching-best-practices/
TLDR: Don't try to fix this on the client side, let the server take care of this. Add the following response header on the server side:
Cache-Control: no-cache