Receptional - 2:08 pm on Dec 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

What I get is that if someone recieves the page via proxy-cache we'll never know, is that right? Does 'no-cache' inthe metas prevent this?

Not necessarily to either question. Most likely is that a cache-user is invisible to the server on the first page he/she lands on but when teh user deviates from the previous cache-version's pages, then they will appear to START at an inner page, with a previous page being the referrer. Also, "no-cache" (if it does work) will put unnecessary(?) strain on your server and increase load times - especially for people on the other side of the world.

Use a javascript - Why not server side (am I missing something here?)

Server side generally means log-files, which is exactly what gets screwed up due to caching.

I cant see how sessions help much as they rely on cookies to implement. Though I'm a rookie at all of this, I believe that PHP (sorry aspdaddy) uses a session variable if cookies are disabled, therebye getting around this problem.

If pages are written in PHP or asp (not javascript) then there should be little issue with using session variables that store info. in a database rather than in cookies. But I am no programmer, so happy to be overruled on that.