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Subject: Re: Why can't MS make IE work like it is supposed to??

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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