alternative history.go(-1)

[grobar]

Anyone know of a way to produce Something like the "onclick=history.go(-1)" command, except it would grab a fresh version of the page from the server and not just pull the old page out of the users cache.

[nico_swd]

You could try using document.referrer.



function goback()
{
if (document.referrer)
{
window.location = document.referrer;
}
else
{
history.go(-1);
}
}


Untested.

[rays]

there are some issues of using document.referrer

Note:
The value is an empty string if the user navigated to the page directly (not through a link, but, for example, via a bookmark). Since this property returns only a string, it does not give you DOM access to the referring page.

Ref http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:document.referrer