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Re: homepage bringing forth weird results
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:25:23 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Shiri Dori writes:
Hey,

Ever since last night I've been getting some weird stuff on the lugnet
homepage. Sometimes, when I click on the "Home" link from a post, I get the
current posts. Then, other times, I get older posts - from last night. These
are the same posts each time, starting from the "CAD newbie question" post
that Bill F. posted and the three posts before it. When I refresh, it
refreshes the page to the current posts; but later it still comes back to the
older posts.

Any ideas about why this is happening and/or how to fix it? TIA!
-Shiri

Sounds like a cacheing problem with your browser-- your browser looks at the
url "http://www.lugnet.com/" and says "Oh! I've been THERE before! I won't
waste my user's time by downloading it again (cuz for those people on 14.4
modems, that'd take a while), so I'll just bring up the copy that I saved a
while ago!". While that works fine for things like flat HTML pages, it's not
fine for generated pages (like LUGNET).

You can turn off this feature in both NN and MSIE... in MSIE 5.0 it's under:
tools->internet options...->Temporary Internet Files->settings...
Just set it to:
"Check for newer versions of stored pages: Every visit to the page."

For NN (mine is 4.05) it's under:
edit->preferences...->advanced->cache
And set it to:
"Document in cache is compared to document on network: Every time"

Hope that helps!
DaveE



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: homepage bringing forth weird results
 
(...) Hmm... after reading this, I *thought* that was the problem. So I turned off the cacheing feature (whatever that is :) ... it still isn't working. Every time I click on my "back" browser button it brings the same old posts. :-/ -Shiri (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: homepage bringing forth weird results
 
(...) The nice thing about this setting in NN (4.61 Linux, at least) is that hitting the Back or Forward button doesn't cause an unwanted refetch (wasteful, as well as a terrible thing if you ever have to leave a form momentarily). But if you (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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Hey, Ever since last night I've been getting some weird stuff on the lugnet homepage. Sometimes, when I click on the "Home" link from a post, I get the current posts. Then, other times, I get older posts - from last night. These are the same posts (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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