Website needs refresh to change

[Don]

I made a change to my website, but when I access it through IE, it
keeps showing me the old page. I have to press F5 to get the update.
This happens even after a computer restart.

Why is this?

Thanks.

Don

[Adrienne Boswell]

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Don <do*********@yahoo.co.uk>
writing in news:11*********************@o5g2000hsb.googlegrou ps.com:

I made a change to my website, but when I access it through IE, it
keeps showing me the old page. I have to press F5 to get the update.
This happens even after a computer restart.

Why is this?

Thanks.

Don

Check your browser settings.

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[Don]

On 15 May, 15:17, Adrienne Boswell <[e-mail]:

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Don <[e-mail]>
writing innews:11*********************@o5g2000hsb.googlegr oups.com:

I made a change to my website, but when I access it through IE, it
keeps showing me the old page. I have to press F5 to get the update.
This happens even after a computer restart.

Why is this?

Thanks.

Don

Check your browser settings.

What should I change?

Thanks.

Don

[Ed Jay]

Don scribed:

>On 15 May, 15:17, Adrienne Boswell <[e-mail]:

>Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Don <[e-mail]>
writing innews:11*********************@o5g2000hsb.googlegr oups.com:

I made a change to my website, but when I access it through IE, it
keeps showing me the old page. I have to press F5 to get the update.
This happens even after a computer restart.

Why is this?

Thanks.

Don

Check your browser settings.

What should I change?

Check your cache settings. It sounds as though your browser is fetching the
old page from cache without first checking for changes in the page.
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[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Don wrote:

Adrienne Boswell <[e-mail]:

>Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Don <[e-mail]>
writing innews:11*********************@o5g2000hsb.googlegr oups.com:

>>I made a change to my website, but when I access it through IE, it
keeps showing me the old page. I have to press F5 to get the
update. This happens even after a computer restart.
Why is this?

Check your browser settings.

What should I change?

Empty your browser's cache. (temporary internet files) Set it to a low
number of bytes of cache storage.

Set it to fetch a new page upon every visit.

Try alternative modern browsers where these settings are easier to find.
http://k75s.home.att.net/tips.html#browsers

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-bts
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[Mumia W.]

On 05/15/2007 09:06 AM, Don wrote:

I made a change to my website, but when I access it through IE, it
keeps showing me the old page. I have to press F5 to get the update.
This happens even after a computer restart.

Why is this?

Thanks.

Don

Clear your browse cache.

If you are able, you should also make your pages emit appropriate
Expires: headers, so that other people's browsers don't cache your pages
for too long.

[David E. Ross]

Mumia W. wrote:

On 05/15/2007 09:06 AM, Don wrote:

>I made a change to my website, but when I access it through IE, it
keeps showing me the old page. I have to press F5 to get the update.
This happens even after a computer restart.

Why is this?

Thanks.

Don

Clear your browse cache.

If you are able, you should also make your pages emit appropriate
Expires: headers, so that other people's browsers don't cache your pages
for too long.

Gecko-based browsers (Firefox, SeaMonkey, Camino, and other
Mozilla-related products) have the option to query the page's time-stamp
on the server. If the page on the server is more recent than the cached
page, the page is fetched from the server. Otherwise the cached page is
used.

One problem with this is that pages with server-side includes (SSIs) or
that are otherwise generated on the fly will always cause the server to
indicate a time-stamp equal to when the page was requested. This always
causes a new fetch from the server even if the page is actually the same
as in the cache. See Mozilla bug report #233293 at
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233293for a discussion
of a possible Gecko enhancement to address this problem.

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[Chris Morris]

"David E. Ross" <no****@nowhere.notwrites:

One problem with this is that pages with server-side includes (SSIs) or
that are otherwise generated on the fly will always cause the server to
indicate a time-stamp equal to when the page was requested. This always

If the dynamic generation is generating something that's actually the
same each time, then it should set an appropriate last-modified
header.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod....html#xbithack
"XBitHack full" might be useful there, though with SSI the options are
a bit limited.

Most dynamic page-generation methods other than SSI let the author
directly set the Last-Modified HTTP header (and also Cache-Control and
Expires).
http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/#IMP-SCRIPT

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