auto refresh code ?

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NZed

When I update my website ...people complain that they cannot see the update
until the refresh on the browser.
Is there a way for those who return to our website to have it auto
refresh...a cookie ?

Whats the solution ?
Looking forward to your replies.

NZed
 
I've had this problem with visitors to a restaurant site I did. the
commonality was all the viewers seeing the old menu were using AOL.
with some help from this ng I did the following that seemed to trick the AOL
cache servers to not save the page:

rename the pages to have cgi in them. i.e. menu.htm became menucgi.htm

add one of those FrontPage "this page was last updated on__" thingies to the
bottom.

the complaints stopped so I guess it worked.
HTH
 
Not sure that did anything
To handle AOL caching see http://webmaster.info.aol.com/caching.html
On non server side pages often just adding a parameter to all pages will break the caching
<a href="page.htm?>The link</a> or
<a href="page.htm?#>The link</a>

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| I've had this problem with visitors to a restaurant site I did. the
| commonality was all the viewers seeing the old menu were using AOL.
| with some help from this ng I did the following that seemed to trick the AOL
| cache servers to not save the page:
|
| rename the pages to have cgi in them. i.e. menu.htm became menucgi.htm
|
| add one of those FrontPage "this page was last updated on__" thingies to the
| bottom.
|
| the complaints stopped so I guess it worked.
| HTH
|
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| The email address on this posting is a "black hole". I got tired of all the
| spam.
| Please feel free to contact me here:
| http://nedp.net/contact/
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|
|
| | > When I update my website ...people complain that they cannot see the
| update
| > until the refresh on the browser.
| > Is there a way for those who return to our website to have it auto
| > refresh...a cookie ?
| >
| > Whats the solution ?
| > Looking forward to your replies.
| >
| > NZed
| >
| >
| >
|
|
 
-----Original Message-----
When I update my website ...people complain that they
cannot see the update until the refresh on the browser.
Is there a way for those who return to our website to
have it auto refresh...a cookie ?

Whats the solution ?
Looking forward to your replies.

NZed

Please browse:

Overriding the Browser's Cache Settings.
http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tips/tipshow.aspx?tip=20

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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