| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 174.1 | | BIGUN::nessus.cao.dec.com::Mayne | A wretched hive of scum and villainy | Fri Apr 11 1997 00:25 | 5 |
| Tell the server to put "nocache" in the response header, to tell the browser not
to cache the page. How to do this is highly server dependent, and depending on
your server, there may be more than one way to skin the cat.
PJDM
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| 174.2 | | BIGQ::SILVA | http://www.ziplink.net/~glen/decplus/ | Fri Apr 11 1997 16:53 | 3 |
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I'll let them know. It is in an ftp area of a vms machine right now.
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| 174.3 | is this selective? | DSNENG::KOLBE | Wicked Wench of the Web | Fri Apr 11 1997 17:48 | 3 |
| I was trying to do this with refresh. Bad idea. And I've tried expire but
the Apache server dosen't seem to aknowledge that. Is the 'nocache' something
that can be done on a page basis or would it affect the entire server? liesl
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| 174.4 | | VMSBIZ::SANDER | OpenVMS Marketing | Fri Apr 11 1997 23:06 | 9 |
| You can always try a meta tag:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
This tells the browser not to cache the page. The server usually doesn't
cache pages. and if you are using a proxy server to get to the page
then this should remove it from it's cache.
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| 174.5 | Or pre-expire the page | PENUTS::AERNI | Ron Aerni, AMCS IS @SHR | Sat Apr 12 1997 00:07 | 18 |
| I recently found the following comments in
http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/author/other/htmlfaq1.htm which
imply "pragma no-cache" doesn't work for IE 3.0. However, I found
another article that indicated IE 2.1 *did* support "pragma no-cache"
so your mileage may vary!
How can I keep my page from being cached?
To keep your page from being cached (e.g., if your content is dynamic
and determined by a server application), use the META tag as follows:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="Tue, 04 Dec 1993 21:29:02 GMT">
Note that the expiration date should be already past. META tags are
used in the <HEAD> section of the HTML page. Refer to
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/spec.html for further
details. Internet Explorer does not support HTTP-EQUIV Pragma no-cache.
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| 174.6 | | 8153::MAYER | ATG/Internet Business Group | Sat Apr 12 1997 02:51 | 6 |
| IE 2.x was a buyout from Spyglass and worked fine. Microsoft then went
and rewrote IE 3.0 from scratch and has a lot more bugs. Witness the
fiasco of trying to download software from the IBG Software
Distribution Server.
Danny
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| 174.7 | | LEXSS1::PUCHRIK | Field Rat | Sat Apr 12 1997 11:30 | 10 |
| IE 3.0 seems to be able to download software from a lot of other
servers. What is the specific bug that keeps it from working with the
IBG Software Distribution Server? What server are you running? I
see that you detect the Microsoft browser. Your server doesn't support
any server-side workarounds?
I expect I'll always run both Netscape and Microsoft browsers. I seem
to change every so often making the other one the default.
Danny, thanks for the terrific service and all the downloads.
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| 174.8 | | 8153::tecotoo.mro.dec.com::mayer | Danny Mayer | Mon Apr 14 1997 16:01 | 11 |
| > IE 3.0 seems to be able to download software from a lot of other
> servers. What is the specific bug that keeps it from working with the
> IBG Software Distribution Server? What server are you running? I
> see that you detect the Microsoft browser. Your server doesn't support
> any server-side workarounds?
IE 3.02 seems to work better in this respect. If I can get them to
support Content-Disposition, we'll be better off. I have total control
on the server side, it's the client which has the problems.
Danny
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| 174.9 | | BIGQ::SILVA | http://www.ziplink.net/~glen/decplus/ | Mon Apr 14 1997 18:14 | 7 |
| | <<< Note 174.4 by VMSBIZ::SANDER "OpenVMS Marketing" >>>
| <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
I'll try that. It would be great if it works as then I am golden.
Thanks!
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| 174.10 | blink and blink again | DSNENG::KOLBE | Wicked Wench of the Web | Wed Apr 23 1997 19:50 | 5 |
| I've added both the pragma and the expired to my kit pages. Now I must
be reloading 2 times because the window flickers and repaints 2 times.
Oh well, it's better than having bad links because the page was cached.
liesl
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