Updates to page not immediately viewable by others

[RP1America]

When making updates to a webpage, I generally go to the page and press Ctrl-F5 to refresh the page so that I can see the changes immediately to verify it all looks fine. However, on occasion when someone else goes to view the update on a different computer, it has not updated for them.

Does anyone know how to make the page update for other users, rather than telling them to press Ctrl-F5?

Thanks for your time!

 

[johnwm]

Have a look at the meta tag 'Expires' here

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[RP1America]

johnwm,

Thanks for the info!

In the same article, I found information regarding 'cache-control'. In your opinion, should I use both the Expires and Cache-Control tags?

<meta http-equiv=”cache-control” content=”option” />
You can use the http-equiv=”expires” with a past date to ensure that the browser retrieves fresh files from the server (rather than caching). Since not all client browsers and caching devices (e.g. proxy servers) are known to successfully implement all no-caching options, include multiple no-caching options, including:

<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="max-age=0" />
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-store" />

 

[johnwm]

I would

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