Re: Forced Loading of New content

by Andrew McFarland <aamcf(at)aamcf.co.uk>

Date:	Sun, 18 Aug 2002 20:09:58 +0100
To:	hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
In-Reply-To:	alg2
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At 10:09 18/08/02 -0400, Anthony L. Gloster, Jr. wrote:
>I was wondering if anyone has any other suggestions/tips/tricks on how to 
>force the users that had already visited the site to load the new content 
>when they return.

See: http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/

>Also, another developer suggested   <.meta http-equiv="expires" 
>content="-1".> would interfere with search engine spiders indexing the 
>site properly. Is this true?

Like all search engine questions, it depends. I know the search engine I am 
currently developing may (or may not) pay attention to the various cache 
headers.

Andrew

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