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Subject:	Re: Forced refresh of html pages instead of getting them from browser cache
Newsgroups:	lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Wed, 9 Aug 2000 22:27:43 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Larry Pieniazek writes: > Is there a better (any other?) way to force a page not to be cached but > instead fetched from the server every time, other than using the META EXPIRES > tag at the top of the page. > > That's the only way I found and am interested to learn if there are others. > > Thanks! > > ++Lar <Ctrl> reload works for me.

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		Re: Forced refresh of html pages instead of getting them from browser cache
(...) That's a keystroke, right? A process runs to generate these pages quite frequently. We want the user to see the most freshly generated page without the user having to take any action of their own. So we want to put tags into the page to tell (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: Forced refresh of html pages instead of getting them from browser cache
(...) Right, but telling your viewers to do that every time isn't a very viable option. (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		Forced refresh of html pages instead of getting them from browser cache
Is there a better (any other?) way to force a page not to be cached but instead fetched from the server every time, other than using the META EXPIRES tag at the top of the page. That's the only way I found and am interested to learn if there are (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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