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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:	Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:35:24 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). > > Or am I missing something? > > 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. > > ++Lar Is its just me, or are you guys making this much too difficult? Or are you thinking your users can't handle the keystroke? Any user that can <Ctrl><Alt><Delete> to reboot can easily function with <Ctrl> and click on "Reload" Just my opinon.

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		Re: Forced refresh of html pages instead of getting them from browser cache
(...) ...<smile> I think their point is that the user should be always up-to-date, even without knowing it; and without having to realize the page is outdated and reloading. At home I have the page reload every time, but here I can't control (...) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

		Re: Forced refresh of html pages instead of getting them from browser cache
(...) And thank you for it. However in this case, it's a customer requirement that the user, in the ordinary course of events, never see the old page. Yes, a clever user can go schlepping around in their cache, and that's OK, but the ordinary user (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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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)

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