Strange Behavior

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Ed Richter

I noticed a rather strange thing going on one of my web pages. I have a web page with a bunch of schools listed with a link for each that you can click on that will take you to a Mapquest generated map of the school location. When I created the page, I had a browser window open where I'd type in the address of the school, let it create the map. Then I'd copy and paste the browser address into my webpage as a hyperlink. Everything seemed to be fine.

But I've noticed that if you open the page and click on a link, the appropriate map will open up. You can then return to the page, click another link, and again will work correctly. However once you have repeated this process twice, after that regardless of which link you click on, for whichever school, only the second map that was generated from clicking on the second school will open up. No matter how many more you click, you'll just keep seeing the same map. The links are all different however. If you close the browser and open up a new window, the behavior will repeat itself. The first two links are fine, after that totally screwed up.

Any ideas??
 
Are you using the MapQuest instructions on how to dynamically link to their
maps at:

http://www.mapquest.com/solutions/product.adp?page=linkfree
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I noticed a rather strange thing going on one of my web pages. I have a web
page with a bunch of schools listed with a link for each that you can click
on that will take you to a Mapquest generated map of the school location.
When I created the page, I had a browser window open where I'd type in the
address of the school, let it create the map. Then I'd copy and paste the
browser address into my webpage as a hyperlink. Everything seemed to be
fine.

But I've noticed that if you open the page and click on a link, the
appropriate map will open up. You can then return to the page, click
another link, and again will work correctly. However once you have repeated
this process twice, after that regardless of which link you click on, for
whichever school, only the second map that was generated from clicking on
the second school will open up. No matter how many more you click, you'll
just keep seeing the same map. The links are all different however. If you
close the browser and open up a new window, the behavior will repeat itself.
The first two links are fine, after that totally screwed up.

Any ideas??
 
Try the suggestions at:

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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-----Original Message-----
I noticed a rather strange thing going on one of my web
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pages. I have a web page with a bunch of schools listed
with a link for each that you can click on that will take
you to a Mapquest generated map of the school location.
When I created the page, I had a browser window open where
I'd type in the address of the school, let it create the
map. Then I'd copy and paste the browser address into my
webpage as a hyperlink. Everything seemed to be fine.
But I've noticed that if you open the page and click on a
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link, the appropriate map will open up. You can then
return to the page, click another link, and again will
work correctly. However once you have repeated this
process twice, after that regardless of which link you
click on, for whichever school, only the second map that
was generated from clicking on the second school will open
up. No matter how many more you click, you'll just keep
seeing the same map. The links are all different
however. If you close the browser and open up a new
window, the behavior will repeat itself. The first two
links are fine, after that totally screwed up.
 
That seemed to be the problem. For some reaosn what was being created by
Mapquest and therefore what I was copying and pasting wasn't correct. Will
have to manually tweak the links it seems.

Thanks for the help
 
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