Hello,

What do you mean by "and you probably should check the pragmas in the pages
(expire,
no-cache, etc). If they aren't present - you are screwed :-)"  

Can you please give me more info on what to do?

Thank you!

Leon Rosenberg-3 wrote:
> 
> and you probably should check the pragmas in the pages (expire,
> no-cache, etc). If they aren't present - you are screwed :-)
> 
> alternatively you could try to set your browser to get the page
> explicitely each time you request it (works with ie, firefox is dumb
> enough to ignore it, thinking it knows more about the actuallity of
> the page than you).
> 
> Have you actually check with TamperData or LiveHttpHeaders if the
> browser really sends GET requests upon refresh?
> 
> Leon
> 
> On 1/3/07, david.delbecq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> To make it short, tomcat does no caching of servlet / jsp output. Your
>> webapp is at fault
>>
>>
>> All tomcat does is handle the 'if-modified-since' header when serving
>> static data (what is not served by a servlet or a jsp, mainly pictures,
>> static html, css). The fact it goes back well when you restart tomcat
>> points out it's a problem with you specific web application. As you have
>> no knowledge of what is inside this web application, i suggest you check
>> with the vendor and or developpers of that specific web application.
>>
>>
>> If you want confirmation, just restart your webapplication without
>> restarting tomcat (use the manager or lambda probe for that)
>>
>> reference:
>>
>> tomcat manager http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/manager-howto.html
>> lambda probe http://www.lambdaprobe.org
>>
>> markx3 a écrit :
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I have a server running Windows 2003 server SP1.  8 GB of RAM.  Sun
>> Java
>> > J2SE 5.0 update 7 and Tomcat 5.5.20.
>> >
>> > Tomcat is used as our web server to review archived email.  The email
>> is
>> > stored in folders on the server and the archival system uses MS SQL
>> 2000 SP4
>> > on the backend.
>> >
>> > The problem is when we use Tomcat as our web server to review the
>> email, and
>> > we click on several emails, after awhile regardless of the different
>> email
>> > we click on, we get the same data displayed in our web browser.  This
>> really
>> > appears to be a caching issue with Tomcat, because every time we
>> restart the
>> > tomcat service, the problem goes away for a few days and then it
>> happens
>> > again.
>> >
>> > To try to fix the issue we gave Tomcat more memory in the Tomcat
>> Properties
>> > / Java tab.  We set initial memory pool to 128 MB of RAM and maximum
>> memory
>> > pool to 512 MB of RAM.  We also tried setting the IE 6.0 and 7.0
>> browsers to
>> > check for newer versions of the page every time I visit the webpage. 
>> Both
>> > of these attempts didn't resolve the issue.
>> >
>> > Since I'm not a web developer I don't know what to tell you about the
>> > website tomcat is hosting.  Except for that it was a .war file that
>> tomcat
>> > extracts once we place in into the tomcat5.5\webapps directory.  If you
>> need
>> > specifics on what this website is, please let me know and I can get
>> that
>> > info for you.  But looking through it there are all the usual files
>> like
>> > .jsp, .htm, etc.
>> >
>> > Also there isn't a proxy server on the network.  When users connect to
>> the
>> > website tomcat is hosting, the browser on the local machine is making a
>> > direct connection since it's on the same subnet.
>> >
>> > Please let me know what suggestions we can use to try to resolve this
>> issue.
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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