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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 23:00:32 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Shiri Dori writes:
> > 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. :-/
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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 to either do:
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> "back" and then "reload"/"refresh"
Yup! Alt-Left, Ctrl-R under Win32. :-)
> OR
> click on "home" (or any link that goes to http://www.lugnet.com/)
Yup! Tab, Tab, Enter under Win32. :-)
> OR
> select it from your list of bookmarks/favorites
> OR
> type the url in manually
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> I don't think any browser will reload a page upon hitting a "back" button--
> unless perhaps there's a <meta> tag in the HTML that specifies a reload...
> but that gets annoying :(
A server can add expiry and cache pragmas to the outgoing HTTP response, if it
wants to expire pages after a certain amount of time. Then, if the browser is
set to check the date, it ought to reload the page if the page has expired.
--Todd
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