Comments for Why do some web pages not update like they should?

Comment from Nicholas Gimbrone on 2009-06-20

2009-06-20T17:17:17Z

As esourece notes, for IE the problem is that the default is "Automatically", which is far from the same of the much safer "Every time". "Automatically" seems to mean something like this "the longer it has been since a change was seen, the less often the server should be asked for the current copy". Bottom line: On IE the only safe setting is "Every Time"!

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Comment from esourece on 2009-06-09

2009-06-09T22:05:15Z

Could also be to do with the IE setting "Check for newer versions of stored pages"under Settings. The options are: Every visit to the page, Every time you start IE, Automatically, Never. The nearer the top of the list of options your settings are, the more likely the page is to update quickly.

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Comment from Anonymous on 2009-06-09

2009-06-09T20:05:56Z

Could it be that there is an additional cache between the website and the browser? I remember making some changes on a website and publishing it, and no matter what I did, I could not view the updated pages in my browser. (I was halfway round the world from home.) However, when I logged in remotely to my home machine and visited the website, the updates were all there. Then back to the local machine and updates were not there. This led me to believe that the ISP in the other country might have been caching the webpages, and updating it only on their own refresh schedule.

Yes. Proxy servers and occasional ISP or other cache's can interfere.

- Leo
10-Jun-2009

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Comment from Jim Swanson on 2009-06-09

2009-06-09T16:03:38Z

On a (sort of) related issues, I had put javascript code on a website I did, that used the "page last modified" data provided by the browser to show when the most recent changes were made. The problem was that it always showed the current date, even though I did not change anything on the page. It finally sank in that I was using "include" files on the site, and every time one of those was brought in the page was "updated".

Sort of stupid of me, I guess. Anyway, now I always hard-code the date when making changes.

Jim S.

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Comment from Geraint on 2009-06-09

2009-06-09T15:43:43Z

On an aside, "CTRL + F5" will tell the browser (at the least Firefox and IE) to re-download the current page entirely from the internet without using the cache.

This provides a way to fix some webpage issues without needing to completely clear and thus loose all your other information stored in the cache.

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Comment from mark on 2009-06-09

2009-06-09T15:42:18Z

You're not doing the refresh properly. Hold down the Shift key, and then click the page reload button (FF and IE). That will do a force-refresh of all page content.

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Comment from Just Looking on 2009-06-08

2009-06-08T15:39:46Z

This is most likely not the problem since it only happens on one of three PCs. However, what if that PC is at work or using another ISP and behind behind a proxy. It doesn't explain why defrag would work but does move the problem outside the PC.

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