Post / Redirect / Get in Webkit causes a full page reload

Question

It seems that in Webkit-based browsers (Chrome and Safari), when Post / Redirect / Get is running on the server, the whole page is fully loaded (html + images + css, etc.). It looks the same as if you reloaded the page.

A question was asked in the Google Chrome Help (and something like a solution): http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=72bf3773f7e66d68&hl=en

Does anyone have a more elegant way to do this? I work with ASP.NET MVC and would prefer not to write a custom redirect result that returns Javascript or the actual UserAgent based page.

Should I just hope and wait for Webkit to change its behavior?

Answer 1

This is mistake. The only workaround I've seen so far is to use the Refresh header instead of the Location header for redirection. This is far from ideal.

Error 38690 - Sending a POST that leads to server redirection causes all cached items to reload

Also, this question is a duplicate of " Loading a full page in Post / Redirect / Get ignoring cache control ".

Answer 2

Try setting the title Cache-Control: public.