Forcing refresh with shift or control?

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

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

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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