Re: Refresh a page
by "Abhay S. Kushwaha" <abhay(at)kushwaha.com>
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Heloo Cassandra
Well, there are two ways to arrive at the same place you want to go to
and one of them is time specific and one is non-time specific. Both
employ the HTTP-EQUIV meta command mentally. I mean, in the <HEAD>.
The time specific deals with setting an Expiry date & time. The
browser archives the page in the cache till the page expires. When the
browser detects that the page has expired, it will re-load the page
from the site. It goes like:
<META HTTP-EQUIV=Expires CONTENT="Sun, 19 Sep 1999 05:30:00 GMT">
Umm... You don't want to use this. Believe me. Do you really think
you'll like to update the date daily? Read on...
The other way stops caching altogether. 100% solid! Foolproof.
Idiotproof... (I think) But it will increase the number of hits on the
page drastically. Drastically! (with a capital D and an exclamation)
The page is retrieved and shown to the user. Then trashed! The next
time the user goes to the page... Contacting XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -> Host
contacted, waiting for reply... -> Opening XXXX.XXX -> blah blah.
Well, you get the point... I hope... Anyway, to achieve this, you go:
<META Http-Equiv="Pragma" Content="no-cache">
If this helped you, plant a tree. :)
[abhay]
----- Original Message -----
From: Edward and Cassandra Sharpe <sharpe(at)mindspring.com>
Subject: Refresh a page
> I am developing my site and I put new information on the server
> daily. I want the browser to reload the page from the server
> everytime a user visits it. How do i do this?
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