Site Refresh

[dcoxjr]

After updating an existing page, what can I do to ensure that all visitors are viewing the current page and not something in their cache.

[Dan Rumney]

dcoxjr wrote:

> After updating an existing page, what can I do to ensure that all visitors are viewing the current page and not something in their cache.

unfortunately, you can't *ensure* it, because that depends on how
their cache is implemented.

using the PRAGMA:NO-CACHE, CACHE-CONTROL:NO-CACHE and EXPIRES:"Thu, 12
Jan 2006 12:00:00 GMT" meta-tags in you document's head will tell
caching systems that they should not cahce the page and will hopefully
encourage caches that are already holding a copy of your old page, to
refresh it.

Hope that helps

Dan

[byardaj]

I don't think you can, can anyone tell us otherwise?

[Make it so!]

Hi

What you could do is insert a refresh tag in your html, it will refresh your site at what ever intevals you want but this may be a bit annoying if it refreshes to often

Phil

[byardaj]

I might be wrong but I thought dcoxjr's question was how do you (in code) do the equivalent of Shift-Refresh, Ctrl-F5, Apple-Opt-E or any othe browser tricks to flush the browser cache?
Andy