How do we do a hard reload/refresh in Chrome using Javascript?
window.location.reload(true);
location.reload(true);
didn't do it for me.
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What I meant by 'didn't do it for me...'
The session cookies (ex. JSESSIONID) were not renewed specially the HttpOnly ones.
What I want to achieve...'
- Open browser
- Type URL
- Hit Enter
I wonder if there is a more powerful Javascript command that reloads as if it is the first time.
location.reload() should work. Works for me!
The best (and practically only) way to ensure a page is hard reloaded is by using your server. One of the ways you can do this is by serving headers, when a page is requested, that invalidate resources such as Cache-Control which will tell the browser to not cache resources and always revalidate resources which means everything must be redownloaded each time.
I would not recommend serving this header on every request in your production application, though.
Cache-Control: no-store, max-age=0
On your page you can add meta tags that will tell the browser what to do, provided there weren't headers already passed to the browser. This depends on how you serve your content, but you can add the following to your head element which will tell the browser to store absolutely nothing and is equivalent to hitting a page for the first time:
<head>
...
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-store, max-age=0">
...
</head>