ASP & Caching

[brotherhood of LAN]

How do you stop a page from caching? Im running an ASP page with some links into the results from the db.

If the last search is on page 3/3 for example, the next search will also end up on the last page or nearest to it

Of course, with every new search i want the 1st results to be displayed!

I assume this is a caching problem...so how do i stop the page being cached in the browser?

[circuitjump]

I've had similar problems with ASP. Usually when I'm using a form. The way I cure it, which is not really curing it but close enough, is I upload the modified script as well as the form that I'm using it with or vise versa. That cures the little cache problem ASP gives me. Otherwise it keeps giving me the same results until I upload all the files the script is using. Even if they weren't modified.

Hope that helps

[mattur]

You need to add some response headers. See aspfaq.com How do I prevent my ASP pages from caching? [aspfaq.com]

[casualsub]

To allow for time differences between server and browsers I normally set response.expires to a large negative number, eg:

response.expires = -2000