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Webpages not automatically refreshed

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wickyd

wickyd

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Feb 14, 2002
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ZA
Hi folx

Our company has a static HTML website. There is an index.html file which is loaded when the user goes to the company url.

Yesterday, I updated the website by making small text changes to all the HTML files except index.html.

After I uploaded the changes, I went to the website only to find the old copy of all of the pages. I had to press F5 to get a new copy of the pages I changed. A colleague checked the website later that evening at home and encountered the same problem.

This is a concern to me as I do not have to refresh any of the news sites I frequent on a daily basis. I always get the latest copy when I connect to their sites.

What could be the problem, which is causing IE to load the cached copy of the website instead of the new copy? How can I prevent this in the future, so that the users that visit the company's website always get the latest copy?

I am using WinXP Pro. with IE 6 (with default cache settings)

Thank you.

Kind regards
wickyd
 
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If your company has a proxy server, then the caching you have experienced may be as a result of the proxy server not having an expired cache. Just a thought.

Jeff
 
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That is an interesting thought.

Our company doesn't have a proxy server in place but the company we use to dial up to the internet does and we do connect via their proxy.

How does that explain that I don't have this problem when I visit news websites more than once a day even though I am connected via our dial-up host's proxy server?

Thank you.

wickyd
 
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Try placing the following
Code: 
<%
Response.Expires = -1 
Response.AddHeader "Pragma", "no-cache"
Response.AddHeader "cache-control", "no-store"
%>
somewhere between the <HEAD></HEAD> tags of your page. Automatically refreshes every time.
 
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