Re: Shownext on AOL

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2003


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 . 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/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Shownext on AOL (Glenn Busbin 2003)
  2. Re: Shownext on AOL (Kenneth Grome 2003)
  3. Re: Shownext on AOL (Donovan 2003)
  4. Re: Shownext on AOL (Glenn Busbin 2003)
  5. Re: Shownext on AOL (Kenneth Grome 2003)
  6. Re: Shownext on AOL (Velma Kahn 2003)
  7. Re: Shownext on AOL (Glenn Busbin 2003)
  8. Re: Shownext on AOL (Kenneth Grome 2003)
  9. Re: Shownext on AOL (Pedro Rivera 2003)
  10. Shownext on AOL (Glenn Busbin 2003)
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/ Glenn Busbin

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