Frontpage Included Content pages - how do I ensure ISP caches ref.

[Guest]

It appears that when content of an include page is changed (for example a
later version of the same file is uploaded to the web serverusing ftp,
overwriting the exiting file ), visitors to the web site continue to see the
obsolete data even though it has been overwritten.

My guesses of what may be causing the problem follow: I would appreciate an
explanation from somebody that really knows this stuff for sure.
(a) Users had already downloaded this page earlier and ISP chaches don't
refresh their copy of the page from my web server.
(b) Frontpage extensions somehow keep another image of the file in a hidden
folder and uploading new content using ftp somehow doesn't update these
hidden files.

How can I ensure updates to web pages which are includes in other web pages
are reliably seen by web site visitors as soon as they occur??

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

The FP Include Page component is a design-time control, where pages using it are updated when you
save the Include Page within your FP web. Since it appears the you are uploading to a remote server
that doesn't have the FP extensions, you must upload all pages that are using the Include Page, not
just the Include Page itself.

Consider using FP to publish, and it will then determine what content has changed, and then upload
the changed content.

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[Donald Link]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:43:01 -0800, "Frank R1959" <Frank

It appears that when content of an include page is changed (for example a
later version of the same file is uploaded to the web serverusing ftp,
overwriting the exiting file ), visitors to the web site continue to see the
obsolete data even though it has been overwritten.

My guesses of what may be causing the problem follow: I would appreciate an
explanation from somebody that really knows this stuff for sure.
(a) Users had already downloaded this page earlier and ISP chaches don't
refresh their copy of the page from my web server.
(b) Frontpage extensions somehow keep another image of the file in a hidden
folder and uploading new content using ftp somehow doesn't update these
hidden files.

How can I ensure updates to web pages which are includes in other web pages
are reliably seen by web site visitors as soon as they occur??

Are you asking how you can control the visitors browser cache so it is
flushed out each time they visit with a change. Not sure how you can
do that.

 

[Andrew Murray]

if you're not using fp server extensions you need to republish *every* page
using that included page. If you were publishing by http: mode this would
not be a problem, but publishing by FTP calls for you to publish all pages
using the included page feature. You might investigate using the server's
Server Side INcludes (which is same thing as Include Page, but you won't see
the included page in design mode until the pages are published.

Also this depends on whether your host allows you to use standard SSI -
check with them.