Does no-cache tag stop caching on isp servers?

urgent help needed

[MHes]

Hi

does the tag <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"> stop a page being cached on an isp server.

A client is using this to count hits from my site on a dedicated blank redirect page to his home page. I show 3 times the hits out from my site, compared to the page requests for his redirect page! 99% of his resolved ip's that have been logged appear only once, suggesting they are being cached.

Please help!

[netcommr]

I have found that does not work with AOL. You might look into http headers to send that message and also send a random etag and expires time with it.

[jdMorgan]

MHes,

In most cases, only the user's browser reads the content of your html page.

To solve the problem you describe, you should modify the cache control content of the header that
your server sends with your page(s). The method used to do this varies by server type, but it is
usually possible and often easy to do.

Here's a link to some useful info [mnot.net], and a cacheability tester [ircache.net].

Hope this helps,
Jim