Author: Stefan Fredriksson
Date: 04:10:47 02/23/01
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On February 22, 2001 at 07:27:52, Mike S. wrote: >On February 21, 2001 at 21:58:52, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On February 21, 2001 at 20:17:44, Chuck wrote: >>(...) >>>I have IE 5.5 and it is set to check for a new copy of the page every visit, >>>still I wasn't getting the new page! After emptying the stupid cache, I now can >>>see everything. Microsux might be worth a damn if they'd quit developing new >>>stuff and fix bugs for a year. >>> >>>Chuck >> >>I very seldom use IE, I don't care for it. I have Netscape setup so it compares >>the page to the cached copy everytime I open a page, so the pages ALWAYS show as >>up to date. > >MSIE should do this too, if set to "check always" as Chuck says above, but I >have noticed the phenomenon too, that sometimes the most recent version is *not* >loaded. My theory is, that this is provider dependent (even if you don't have >configured a proxy server). It seems to me, that one of my ISP's uses proxy >servers in the "background" so to say, and the Explorer can only get the old >copies which lay there, for the first 2 or 3 attempts. > >I even get older (!) versions of pages sometimes, after pressing F5 (that's why >I think that there is more than one proxy). > >I did not have this problem with other providers. > >Regards, >M.Scheidl Perhaps you can disable the proxy? Usually the proxy causes more problem than its worth. /Stefan
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