Re: expiring content on win2k and IIS5 servers

by "Phil Babcock" <pbabcock(at)bgsgroup.com>

 Date:  Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:06:21 -0500
 To:  "Bryan Bateman" <batemanb(at)home.com>,
hwg-servers(at)hwg.org
 References:  felix workhorse
  todo: View Thread, Original
We are not using the IIS Session management so this is not an option.=
 Fortunately I got it working using Response.ExpiresAbsolute =3D #January=
 01 2000# instead of Response.Expires =3D 0.

thanks for your help!
phil.
 

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On 11/19/2000 at 6:22 AM Bryan Bateman wrote:

>Try Session.Timeout
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Phil Babcock" <pbabcock(at)bgsgroup.com>
>To: <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
>Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 4:59 PM
>Subject: expiring content on win2k and IIS5 servers
>
>
>Hey all
>
>We have been fighting with trying to reliably expire the content on an=
 IIS5
>SSL server.  We have Response.Expires =3D 0 on every page and we have the
>server setup to allow content expiry and to expire immediately.  The=
 trouble
>is that this only seems to cause the graphical content to be reloaded on
>each page, and not the html.  For example if some one is navigating=
 through
>the site and uses their back button, all the graphics are re-downloaded=
 but
>the html isn't.  Doing a refresh on that page then gets the new content.
>Why wasn't it requested with the graphics? We have seen some servers where
>if you use the back button you will see a page that says, "this page has
>expired.... blah blah blah".  We can't seem to get that to happen on our
>machines... is there something else we need to do?  Where does that "page
>has expired" that you see from time to time come from?  Is that generated=
 by
>the browser or does it come from the server?
>
>*Any* pointers are appreciated!
>
>The servers are win2k and IIS5.  We are using ASP pages.
>
>phil.

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