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Re: homepage bringing forth weird results
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:31:19 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, David Eaton writes:
> 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).
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> 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."
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
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| (...) Ahh! Well, sadly (or happily perhaps!) you can't fix that. That's actually what the 'back' button is supposed to do... this actually comes in handy at times believe it or not... But if you want to make sure you load the new page, you'll have (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: homepage bringing forth weird results
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| (...) That's the *right* behavior -- the Back button should *not* cause a re-load of any web page *ever* unless it's gone from the cache. If browsers refetched things when the Back buttons was pressed -- especially pages with forms and things -- it (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: homepage bringing forth weird results
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| (...) Sounds like a cacheing problem with your browser-- your browser looks at the url "(URL) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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