Re: Shownext on AOL
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It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 46949
interpreted = N
texte = Thanks for the feedback, guys.I really don't think it's an html error in my code. I've checked it 40 ways from Sunday and had a validator look at it, too. No probs show up.>>>Next, check to see whether or not the browser is caching pages it should not cache. If so, you may need to put a unique value into every link in your web site -- in order to force the browser to get the page from the server instead of from its cache.I have a Startat= thing in the URL. It shows either Startat=1 or Startat=21. Is that not adequate as a unique value?It could be AOHell's notorious server cache. I need to look into that more.It may also be the version of that particular browser. I think AOL was using IE with its V4 software, but I'm not sure...not that anything from MS ever does unusual or non-standard things, of course.I found this info about browser caching in some old files, but can't remember where it is online.>Expires>This tells the browser the date and time when the document will be considered expired. If a user is using Netscape Navigator, a request for a document whose time has expired will initiate a new network request for the document. An illegal Expires date such as 0 is interpreted by the browser as immediately. Dates must be in the RFC850 format, (GMT format):>
>>Pragma>This is another way to control browser caching. To use this tag, the value must be no-cache. When this is included in a document, it prevents Netscape Navigator from caching a page locally.>
>>These two tags can be used as together as shown to keep your content current-but beware. Many users have reported that Microsoft's Internet Explorer refuses the META tag instructions, and caches the files anyway. So far, nobody has been able to supply a fix to this bug. As of the release of MSIE 4.01, this problem still existed.Glenn-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Thanks for the feedback, guys.I really don't think it's an html error in my code. I've checked it 40 ways from Sunday and had a validator look at it, too. No probs show up.>>>Next, check to see whether or not the browser is caching pages it should not cache. If so, you may need to put a unique value into every link in your web site -- in order to force the browser to get the page from the server instead of from its cache.I have a Startat= thing in the URL. It shows either Startat=1 or Startat=21. Is that not adequate as a unique value?It could be AOHell's notorious server cache. I need to look into that more.It may also be the version of that particular browser. I think AOL was using IE with its V4 software, but I'm not sure...not that anything from MS ever does unusual or non-standard things, of course.I found this info about browser caching in some old files, but can't remember where it is online.>Expires>This tells the browser the date and time when the document will be considered expired. If a user is using Netscape Navigator, a request for a document whose time has expired will initiate a new network request for the document. An illegal Expires date such as 0 is interpreted by the browser as immediately. Dates must be in the RFC850 format, (GMT format):>>>Pragma>This is another way to control browser caching. To use this tag, the value must be no-cache. When this is included in a document, it prevents Netscape Navigator from caching a page locally.>>>These two tags can be used as together as shown to keep your content current-but beware. Many users have reported that Microsoft's Internet Explorer refuses the META tag instructions, and caches the files anyway. So far, nobody has been able to supply a fix to this bug. As of the release of MSIE 4.01, this problem still existed.Glenn-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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