refresh not refreshing

[derwent]

I realise this may be more suited to a browser forum but the users of this forum press f5 100x more than anyone else!!

I make an update to a page, press f5 (or even control + F5 to force one) to view the change on the screen. After a few hours refresh stops working, even control refresh.

I have to restart my machine to be able to view the updated page.

Wierd thing is, it's not just IE, when refresh stops working in IE I can try FF or Opera and both display the old page!! The only thing I can do is to rename the page (default2.asp for example) to see the change, but if I change default2 I can`t refresh this.

Has anyone else had this? I have all brosers set to 'check for newer version' to every visit, wiped my cache and even made the cache size bigger but when it happens the only thing to rectify it for a few hours is to restart.

grrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Maybe your web server is caching the pages? Try asking in the forum related to the web server software you use.

Hope this helps,
Dan

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[BabyJeffy]

It'll be a caching issue at the server or on the browser... from what you say it sounds more likely it's the server. I'm assuming you are not sitting between a caching server *lol*.

So... a suggestion for you...

Append ?somelongrandomnumber to the end of the page you want to visit. This technique is often called "cache busting" and was popular last century with Netscape local caching.

[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mysite.com/mydevpage.asp?blahblahblah123[/URL]

Hope that's of some value to you.

Cheers,
Jeff

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[derwent]

I am behind a proxy server but I have to my browsers to ignore proxy for localhost.

thanks Jeff, will use your technique for now but it's still a pain in the bum.