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: Why is Chrome caching my login page? Our literacy web site for kids with disabilities is causing some users issues with logging in. You can visit the site at http://tarheelreader.org/. If you

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Our literacy web site for kids with disabilities is causing some users issues with logging in. You can visit the site at tarheelreader.org/. If you login at tarheelreader.org/login/, and then go to the login page again you should see a logout message. But Chrome caches the page and returns the original login page instead. The headers are:

Cache-Control:no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Content-Encoding:gzip
Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date:Thu, 26 Jan 2017 22:55:55 GMT
Expires:Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
Link:<https://tarheelreader.org/?p=110663>; rel=shortlink
Pragma:no-cache
Server:nginx
Vary:Accept-Encoding
X-UA_Compatible:IE=edge,chrome=1


Which are about every way I could find to say don't cache this page. But the network tab in the debugger shows the page coming from disk cache. If I disable the cache with the checkbox in the debugger things work as they should.

Update
If I set the sandbox version of the site to use HTTPS only the problem goes away. Maybe it is something about the switching from HTTP to HTTPS and back?

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@BetL925

no-cache is not as strong as no-store. Chrome's documentation indicates that no-cache indicates a re-usable document, while no-store indicates that it should not be re-used.



Based on this information, your Cache-Control header should simply be:

Cache-Control: no-store


The extra values in it may be letting Chrome pick and choose which it would like to honor.

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