Re: FN-FORUM: Auto refresh browser

date posted 9th November 2005 23:32

Matt Mitchell wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 November 2005 17:29, jd wrote:
>
>>Is it possible to put a piece of code in your web page so that the browser
>>will refresh, so as to make sure it is not reading old graphics that are
>>stored in the cache?

Short answer: No

Refreshing the page doesn't always mean it'll try and re-get it from the
server. It still might use local cache.

Then there is your ISPs caching proxy which will also be caching pages
often making things a complete pain in the *** due to clients no being
able to see the changes you have made to a site.

In firefox you can force a proper refresh by using shift+reload. This
refreshes your cache and sends an instruction to the proxy server to
also update its cache (whether said proxy server actually listens is a
totally different matter).

> Just put something like this in the element
>
>

Unfortunatly this won't work for the reasons above.


Nathan