Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm having a problem viewing <http://freshmeat.net/> where the cached
> page dates from May 2004 and pressing reload in the web browser
> (Mozilla) doesn't cause wwwoffled to contact the server for a fresh
> version.
> My config file is vanilla, apart from the following differences:
> - request-changed = 10m
> + request-changed = -1
This would seem to be the one that is causing the problem. It says
that the page is not to be refetched when online.
[<URL-SPEC>] request-changed = (time)
While online pages will only be fetched if the cached version is older
than this specified time in seconds (default=600). Setting this value
negative will indicate that cached pages are always used while online.
Longer times can be specified with a 'm', 'h', 'd' or 'w' suffix for
minutes, hours, days or weeks (e.g. 10m=600).
Setting this value to something reasonably large (for example a day)
should make this page refresh again.
> The Reload button seems to work most of the time, although I did
> notice odd problems with other sites. This started when I upgraded to
> 2.8c, although I tried downgrading again to 2.8b and the problem was
> still there, so I don't know what really changed.
>
> Is this a bug in wwwoffled? I thought that pressing reload in the
> browser should always cause wwwoffle to contact the web server if it
> is online.
There are two things that pressing reload in a browser can do. it can
either ask the proxy for another copy of the same page or demand that
the proxy get a new version of the same page. I don't know what
browser you are using, but it seems that it is only asking for a new
page and not demanding that one is fetched. You could try holding
shift or control when pressing reload to see if it forces the reload.
--
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
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