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We have recently disposed of our archaic proxy server and replaced it with VPN for accessing internal sites from outside the network.
Is there any way to test internal pages with the AOL browser? Any help would be appreciated.
Because AOL is a version of IE, it's not common for page layout problems to occur in AOL unless they also occur in regular Explorer. It's the propietary image compression that makes the most trouble for me.
You might post a test site and password protect the directory, but that still "exposes" your site to the internet to a degree. I don't know a way to do a full test in AOL offline. Maybe someone else will come along who has an idea
Their may be a way to make VPN work for you in this situation. I'm going to check with someone I know who specializes.
I would suggest testing locally, AOL has all kinds of wierd caching going on at the network level, and it is unlikely that that you will will get a clean refresh even if you clear your local cache.
I was also looking at AOL's webmaster area concerning the caching issue - has anybody tried to block caching through the http headers? Any success / failure stories?
webmaster.info.aol.com [webmaster.info.aol.com]
You said it -- both the image issue and the caching are problematic. I have clients on AOL who have accused me of lying when all they can access is an old verion of the website and I calim I made a change.
