alternative history.go(-1)

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.

 

You could try using document.referrer.

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

Code (javascript):

Untested.

 

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