Unfortunately, requiring all visitors to a site to change their browser
settings is not a viable solution.
(*Chris*)
----- Original Message -----
From: Thad Humphries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 1999 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: How to overcome overzealous cacheing by IE4 on Mac ?
>There is a fix for this on IE 4.0 on Windows!!
>
>I ran across this yesterday with IE 4.0 on Windows NT and CGIs: IE was
>caching the results of my CGIs such that new database records would not
>appear unless I restarted IE.
>
>As is typical for Microsloth, the solution was buried several levels down
>in their god-awful GUI: From IE's menu bar, View->Internet Options;
>General tab, frame Temporary Internet files, button Settings...; select
>radio button "Every visit to the page" under "Check for newer versions of
>stored pages:" That fixed it for IE 4.0 Windows.
>
>I'm still looking for the solution with IE 4.5 Macintosh.
>
>I hope there is a special place in hell for Bill Gates...
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I found this problem even with IE 4.0 on Windows NT. I
>>basically tried all the headers that you tried, but IE
>>somehow wasn't convinced and always kept caching
>>my pages.
>>
>>I finally ended up using a unique key that would be
>>different every time a request to the servlet was made.
>>That way IE always thinks its a different page,
>>
>>arif.
>>
>>_________________
>>Arif Pathan
>>PSW Technologies
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Claude Zervas [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Friday, March 12, 1999 1:05 PM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: How to overcome overzealous cacheing by IE4 on Mac ?
>>
>>I hope this is not off topic - but I am using servlets !
>>
>>IE4 on the Mac seems to ignore all the HTTP headers that
>>relate to cache control.
>>I've set the "Expire" header to the current date or zero, I've
>>set "Pragma" to "no-cache", and "Cache-Control" to "no-cache".
>>These all work fine for Netscape on all platforms, IE3 and IE4
>>on Windows, and Opera. But IE4 on the Mac caches dynamically
>>generated pages fairly consistently no matter what.
>>
>>Does anyone know if there are other cache control headers
>>that may be pertinent ? Or is IE4/Mac basically buggy ?
>>
>>This is a frustrating problem. Almost all our pages are
>>generated by servlets and are not cacheable due to the
>>nature of the data, so caching needs to be disabled.
>>
>>Any information on this would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>>Thanks,
>>- Claude
>>_____________________________
>>Claude Zervas
>>Principal Computer Scientist
>>Uniplanet LLC, Seattle
>>
>>http://www.uniplanet.com
>
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