Caching in Netscape...

[Ammon S Ripple Jr]

On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Wilfred Drew wrote:

> THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM OR A BUG!!!!!!  It is simply the way a cache
works.  Please excuse the shouting.  Clicking on reload may also show any
changes you have made.  It is a very good idea to clear the cache on
Netscape from time to time anyway. 

Wilfred,   

Go under the Options menu on Netscape and then under Network Preferences. 
Once there, you have the option to verify the document in the cache
against the document on the server and to display the most current one. 
This may be a little slower, but if you are creating/updating web pages,
it saves you the hassle of having to clear the cache each time you make a
revision. 
    
Our copy of Netscape 2.01 appeared to have a bug in which the Reload
button would not bring up the revised document.  Also, even though we had
the preferences set to verify the document every time it was requested, it
only brought up the cached document until we went in and cleared the
cache. This seems to have been fixed in the 2.02 version. 

See the following excerpt from the Netscape handbook:

Select one of three radio buttons to specify how Netscape checks the 
network for document revisions (so that you're brought an updated page
from a network server rather than a potentially stale page stored in 
the cache). The default choice, Once per Session, checks for page
revisions only once during the time you start and quit the
application. Choosing Every Time repeatedly checks for changes when you
request a page, at the cost of slower performance. Choosing Never 
performs no verifications, thus a page available in cache is always 
brought from cache. 
(http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.02/handbook/docs/panels.html#C13)

Ammon

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