[WEB4LIB] Re: ASP pages remaining stubbornly cached

[Thomas Dowling]

>>I have uploaded an updated ASP page to my website. When I viewed the page
>>in my browser I see the older version of the page. In Internet Explorer 5.5,
>>I deleted the temporary internet files, cleared the history and restarted
>>the browser but this did not solve the problem.


At 03:38 AM 11/28/2002 -0800, Nikos Kourkoumelis wrote:
>Hi John...

>Finally use these meta tags:
><meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
><meta http-equiv="expires" content="0">
><meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache">


I'm not an ASP person, but I have to believe it can write real HTTP headers:

   Pragma: no-cache
   Expires: 0
   Cache-control: no-cache

The advantage comes if some intermediary proxy/firewall/whatever caches 
pages without reading them.  Such a cache would never know about the "<meta 
http-equiv...>" tags.



Thomas Dowling
Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu