Re: First Post

Hi Doug,

content-type simply tells the browser that you are using HTML on the page
expires can be set to a specific date when the page or the content on the
page expires.
pragma?  no idea never seen it before.
cache-control tells the browser not to put the page into the cache on the
users computer.  This ensures that a new copy of the site is loaded each
time the user visits your site.

Hope this helps!
Brandon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Beck" <DougB(at)pollardwater.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 1:44 PM
Subject: First Post


Can anyone please explain the function of the following:

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html">
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0">
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache">

Doug

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