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Re: Help Needed with Quick ebay Test-UPDATE
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Mon, 1 Jan 2001 15:32:38 GMT
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G'day folks,
Thanx to everyone who helped me with the tests! :]
I figure there no sense in doing any more at this point.
I did a pile more experimenting and discovered that my
favourite searches (the ones I was using steadily) are
the ones that are "stuck" and won't update. I can enter
any new search I desire, and everything works fine,
even updating by-the-second if I keep smacking Reload/Refresh.
I still cannot for the life of me figure out why my
usual searches are pulling cached data. Futher I cannot
figure out where this data is coming from. I have deleted
every cache file that I can find, and still cannot get
those searches to pull new data.
So here's my workaround. In the URL garbage for the
search pages, there is text in there that says
"skip=" followed by a number. You won't see this for the
first page of any search results, but it will always be
on the subsequent pages. It tells ebay how many listings
to jump when going to the next page. ebay seems to use
50. So page 2 will say "skip=50", page 3 "skip=100", etc.
So I took the url for the second page of results of
one of my favourite searches, and changed it to
skip=1. When I hit reload, I now get updated results
every single time. What I have done here is forced
my idiot browser to use a slightly different URL for
the first page, one that skips the first listing.
Since it is a new (non-"cached") URL, I get to see
new results. Hitting "Next" brings up a page with
"skip=51", also new, with new results, and so on.
Since the search I do is generally to look at new
listings first, I don't mind not seeing the first
listing. If I was doing "ends first" then I would
always be missing the next one to close. I tried
setting a "skip=0" for the first page, which ebay
doesn't do. The first page got fresh results,
but all subsequent pages were still the old
"stuck/cached/whatever" pages since they still
used the same URLs ("skip=50", "skip=100", etc.).
I'll save my "skip=1" workaround as a favourite link
and hopefully that will keep me in business. It
remains to be seen over the next couple of days
whether or not it still works. My searches used
to work always, until a day or so had passed and
that's when they all got stuck.
If anyone has any ideas of "hidden places" where
MSIE may be sticking this cached data, please let
me know. I'd sure love to hunt it down and kill
it!! ;]
Thanx, and Happy New Year!
KDJ
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LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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| "Kyle D. Jackson" <flightdeck@sympatic...mblock.ca> wrote in message news:G6HpuE.1L4@lugnet.com... (...) Are you accessing the web via a proxy? If so then the proxy is probably storing the pages and that's why you're only seeing updates when you (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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