Solving the Logout back button problem through javascript.

In this blog we will see how to solve the logout back button problem, this is a simple solution to handle but its not robust but still works well less number of pages.

Here is the JS for

<pre>
function preventBack(){
         window.history.forward();         
         }
        
         setTimeout("preventBack()", 0);
         window.onunload=function(){null};
</pre>



Here is the Demo

Another way of overcoming this would be adding recaptcha to the login form , even though the form gets resubmitted it will fail at captcha as it would be different for every page load.