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Re: Forced refresh of html pages instead of getting them from browser cache
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Wed, 9 Aug 2000 23:23:54 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.publish, Ed Jones writes:
> > 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.
>
> 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 the browser not to cache, by forcing it to expire out of the
> browser (and out of intermediate caching servers).
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> Or am I missing something?
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> As other posters have said, it seems the meta tag with the expires and pragma
> nocache subtags (I like KL's example, seems very belt and suspenders, and
> that's meeee...) is the way to go.
Just a clarification, my example was for direct writing of HTTP headers,
as you must do in a CGI. I suppose those tags would work as META HTTP-EQUIV
tags in a web page, but I'm not sure if all proxy caches look at http-equivs,
while they do look at the real HTTP headers.
KL
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