Anchors, Links and Caches

[MarkUK]

I update our website news page weekly and then send links to our subscribers along the lines of
http://www.example.org.uk/news/index.html#Neurologists
(the anchors change each week)

The downside of this is for some users, the previous week's version is stored in the cache and so they have they have to refresh before seeing the latest version.

It's been suggested that I add a parameter to the link (changed every week), such as
http://www.example.org.uk/news/index.html?&x=090703#Neurologists

And this will stop the cache versions being reloaded.

I'm willing to give it a try, but will it work?

[edited by: korkus2000 at 12:32 pm (utc) on July 9, 2003]
[edit reason] examplified URLs [/edit]

[Sinner_G]

Wouldn't it be easier to put a no-cache tag on those pages? It is used to insure a page is reloaded from your server every time a user goes there:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">