How to disable page caching in IE and Netscape

alex1311 · Oct 27, 2000

Is this enough, or there is smth else?

<META http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<META http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache">

Thanx.

cpope · Oct 27, 2000

If you are willing to use ASP you could use
<% Response.Expires=-1 %>
as the first line of the document. (must have the extension .asp)

philcha · Nov 1, 2000

"pragma no-cache" is the name of the technique, not how it is coded.

Put this after the <HEAD> tag.
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="Mon, 06 Jan 1990 00:00:01 GMT">

Unfortunately I'm not sure Netscape supports it, although IE does.

bigfoot · Nov 3, 2000

This will do what you want:
<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<% Response.Buffer=True%>

Hope this helps

TAMSIN · Nov 6, 2000

quick comment - if you just use meta tags, this will only stop the browser from caching the page, but won't stop intermediate caches on the internet from caching it, so you still might not get an up-to-date copy of the page. To stop intermediate caching, you have to set the http headers which you can do as described above using ASP - or I guess through web server settings.

HTH
Tamsin

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