Netscape 7 Meta Tag issue

[sdgun]

Hi,

I have a page which retrieves data from the database, that is why am unable to give you a snippet of that code.

But basically, what I am trying to do is retrieve some data from the database, including timestamp. I have the meta tags set to no-cache and expires=-1 on this page. The timestamp does change for every click on every browser except for Netscape 7.

If I click the link to bring up the above page, it brings up the page from cache. I can tell this based upon the timestamp. If I hit reload from the tool bar, the page gets refreshed. I am guessing there must be some meta tag issue which does this.

The Cache-Control directive is also set in the server-side response header.

Please let me know if this is not clear or need further clarification.

Thanks in advance.

SGun

[ritch_b]

Any chance Netscape 7 ignores the no-cache tag and/or that the cache option is set to never compare the cached page to the one on the network?

I'm having a bad brain day, so apologies if I've totally lost the point here.

R.

[sdgun]

Hi,

thanks for your reply. Yes the cache option is set to never compare the cached page to one on the network. Does it behave like this if the option is set so?

Thanks,

SG

[ritch_b]

As far as I know, if the "compare cache" is set to never, Netscape will happily use the cached version of the page for all eternity. I'm not sure what the default setting is however & you will probably want to have a play around with the four options, seeing how each affects the way the page caches.

What I'm uncertain of is how this setting will affect pages that use includes and the like. It's possible that it may make no difference & once the page has been rendered and cached, this version is used all the time.

Hopefully somebody who's a bit more informed will be able to shed some light on the situation.

R.