Force IE object to refresh from web not cache 1

[SnyAc]

I need to be able to force an I.E. object to navigate or refresh from the internet, and not from the cached pages. On most of my installation sites the IE object seems to refresh normally, but I have observed a number of sites where the page displayed doesn't update and remains frozen on the cached page. This is an automated IE object.

Any suggestions/ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Andy Snyder
SnyAc Software Services

http://www.snysoft.com

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Are you using HTML pages? If so put this somewhere at the top

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60">

This will refresfh the page every 60 seconds.


Mike Gagnon

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ReFox XI (www.mcrgsoftware.com)

 

[SnyAc]

I'm working from the otner side of the server/client relationship.

oIE=CREATEOBJECT("InternetExplorer.Application")
oIE.navigate("myurl")

Andy Snyder
SnyAc Software Services

http://www.snysoft.com

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Then one trick you could use is to add a tag that does not exist at the end of your URL, that way internet explorer will look for the tag an not find it and force a redownload of the page.

myURL = '[URL unfurl="true"]www.microsoft.com#temptag'[/URL]
oIE=CREATEOBJECT("InternetExplorer.Application")
oIE.navigate(myurl)

Mike Gagnon

If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ184-2483 first.
ReFox XI (www.mcrgsoftware.com)

 

[baltman]

It seems to be dependent on IE's cache setting. I assume that that's stored in the registry and could be changed programmatically. Since the only app I have that might care is for my personal use, I just make sure the setting is 'every time I visit a web page' under tools->options->temp files (exact is IE version dependent).

Brian

 

[baltman]

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Cache

Value: Persistent
DWORD: 00000001

You can see VFP samples for registry change code.