Forcing refresh with shift or control?

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What is the difference between forcing the browser to refresh using
CTRL-refresh and SHIFT-refresh?

I have a java applet which reads in an XML properties file to set some
general settings. When i use CTRL-refresh, an old version of the properties
file is read in, while SHIFT-refresh reads in the newer version.

Is this an issue with IE, my webserver (testing with Apache 2 on localhost),
my application...or is this the intended behaviour of IE?

Cheers.
 
To help anyone else who may come across this problem in the future, the
solution was to use an init() method in the Java applet and not use a
constructor.
 
Ambrosimus said:
What is the difference between forcing the browser to refresh using
CTRL-refresh and SHIFT-refresh?
Click to expand...


Ctrl-F5 means that ETags won't be used when a request is done.
If a file was already in the cache Refresh would just send a request
using the existing Etag. I don't think that there is anything special about
Shift-Refresh but I must admit I probably haven't done a trace of that
case.


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