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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 22:52:45 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, David Eaton writes:
> [...]
> 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."
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> 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"
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
explicitly invoke the URL via, say, a click or Open Location, then it reloads.
The nightly build of Mozilla (sometime in the past week) that I'm running
seems to be always refetching pages regardless of the setting. I haven't
tested this with MSIE5 yet. It's possible that the CGI headers need to be
set more explicitly with cache and expiry pragmas.
--Todd
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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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