How to enable autocomplete when using Internet Explorer and SSL?

Question

When both of the following conditions are true:

1.The page was delivered over HTTPS

2.The page was delivered with headers or a META tag that prevents caching

...the Autocomplete feature is disabled, regardless of the existence or value of the Autocomplete attribute. This remark applies to IE5, IE6, IE7, and IE8. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533486(VS.85).aspx

How can I override IEs default behavior given the scenario above?

An option is to use a different browser since this behavior only occurs in IE. However, changing browsers would be a major pain and my users prefer to stick with IE. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Our goal with using the "no-cache" directive was to prevent forms from being submitted more than once. The unexpected consequence was that autocomplete stopped working. We discovered that changing to (Response.CacheControl = "must-revalidate, private") allows us to use autocomplete once again while using SSL. Hope this helps someone else.