Weird Yahoo Web Hosting delay?

[kenfused]

I'm helping a friend with their site... on Yahoo Web Hosting.
If I make a change to say index.php then upload it, I see the page.
But if I make a minor change, upload it, then try to view the page, I keep seeing the OLD iteration of the page.

If I delete the page, then upload it again, same problem... I keep seeing the old page (even after emptying browser cache or quitting or using another browser)

If I upload the page under a new filename "index2.php" I see the correct page... If I then update "index2.php" and update it, I again see the prior version of index2.php

It is getting really irritating having to rename the file after every minor change and trying to preview it...

Weird thing is, that when I look at the file using my FTP program, I can see the updated file, but when I point my browser to that page, I see the old one!

Does Yahoo hosting use some kind of weird server caching, not always showing the latest version of a file?

[bill]

That sounds very much like your ISP is running a web cache proxy. They're doing it to help speed up the surfing of their customers, but at times it can cause trouble (like now). You can often work around this by using a different proxy. I often work around situations like this by running a VPN connection to another machine on a different network and checking the pages that way.

[Corey Bryant]

Are you using IE? If so, try doing CNTL-F5 for a hard refresh. If you are using AOL, that is supposed to work as well but I have not had that much luck with it

-Corey

[kenfused]

runnning safari and FF
how do I use a diff proxy?

[bill]

how do I use a diff proxy?

There are various extensions available for FireFox that simplify this process. You could also manually just go into:

Tools¦Options¦General¦Connection Settings...

and set the proxy yourself.

I'm not familiar with Safari, but you could probably set the proxy manually in much the same manner.