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gardener

9:39 am on Jul 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

We regularly update our home page. How do I make sure that the latest content is being seen by users who have the old version in their browser cache? Is there some kind of refresh tag? How do news sites do it?

Mr_Brutal

11:56 am on Jul 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hi gardener,

Try a google search for "no cache". This approach will prevent users from viewing any cached version they have.

Becareful not to just use the NO CACHE META tag though cos it has problems apparently.

HTH

sidyadav

12:00 pm on Jul 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

gardener, try putting the following within your <head> tag:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="PRAGMA" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">

But makes sure you've got a lot of bandwidth to spare! ;)

Sid

gardener

12:39 pm on Jul 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

I did the google search and found a second tag as well.

Here's what I added to the top of the page between the header tags, and again at the bottom of the page between header tags (after the body closing tag):

Does that sound right?

Mr_Brutal

12:49 pm on Jul 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

Looks good to me garderner just be aware that are some bugs but otherwise that should do the job!

The MS site:

[support.microsoft.com...]

says that you can also stick the tag at the end of the file to be sure :-)

gardener

1:45 pm on Jul 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

Many thanks!

Refreshing page

getting new content seen

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