[WEB4LIB] forcing IE to display page from sever

[Mark Pecaut]

Microsoft has a page about this that may or may not help 
you.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q199/8/05.ASP

Also other things you could try (but may not fix it) are

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="Tue, 01 Jan 1980 1:00:00 GMT">

And setting the cache size in IE to 0 .  

Good luck,

-Mark

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 06:29:14PM -0700, Jenny Barry wrote:
> Please excuse me if this rambles a bit. I'll try to be succinct.
> 
> We update the news or a featured program on our home page almost
> daily.  However, IE 5.x (perhaps earlier versions also) insists on
> displaying a page from cache instead of calling the server for a new page.
> Netscape 4.x displays the new page everytime.
> 
> I have tried the following META tags: 
> 
> <meta HTTP-EQUIV="Expire" CONTENT="now">
> <meta HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
> 
> but it doesn't seem to make a difference.  I realize I can clear the
> Temporary Internet Files and then reload, but I'm assuming our general
> public has no idea that they are viewing an old page. Changing the
> Temporary Internet Files settings to check for a new page "every visit to
> the page" or "everytime Internet Explorer starts" also fails to make a
> difference.
> 
> I know that our ISP uses a caching server, but I believe that we have been
> excluded from it due to problems with IP authentication for our databases.
> 
> Is there something else I can check for? Something else I can code?
> 
> Thanks for your suggestions.
> 
> 
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> Jenny Barry
> Reference/Electronic Resources Librarian
> Highland Park Public Library, 494 Laurel Ave., Highland Park, IL 60035
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