TSGL: IE refresh latency

[Tilman Brandl]

Don,

what you are seeing certainly IS the old page. Thus the question is - where 
does that page come from? My guess: It's coming from your provider who' 
probably caches often called up pages..

Have you ever tried refreshing the page with SHIFT pressed? This behaviour 
also depends on the browser-settings. There you can decide when & how often 
pages are refreshed.

Hope this helps
Tilman
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Don Penlington
  To: TSGL List
  Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 11:29 AM
  Subject: TSGL: IE refresh latency


  Among my other unforgiveable sins, I make web pages.

  I use WsftpLite to upload pages to the servers.

  When I upload an amended page, my browser Maxthon (IE6) does not seem to
  display the amended page until perhaps the next day, or several hours,
  later. This is even after closing and reopening the browser.

  Refreshing doesn't help.

  When I "view source" in Wsftp at the server end, the amended pages come up
  straight away, thus confirming that the transfer was successful.

  When I "view source" in the browser, the old page comes up.

  My initial thought was that the server may be slow to save the update, but
  if that were so, I would not expect the amendments to show in Wsftp at the
  server end. The server site I usually use is an excellent one, and I have
  no reason to suppose that it would be that slow to update. As the 
behaviour
  seems fairly consistent, that would seem to rule out any possibility of 
the
  server being down for maintenance. (Again, the fact that the amendments
  show in the destination pane of Wsftp seems to rule out that possibility).

  My next thought is that the browser is not refreshing. But the browser
  cache ("temp internet files"), is set to empty upon closing the browser. I
  have rechecked the settings, and have inspected the browser cache after
  closing and re-opening the browser, to verify that it is indeed emptying
  the cache. "Temp internet files" is empty each time before I re-visit the
  website in question.

  Several hours or maybe a day later, it seems to have played catchup, and
  the amended pages come up fine.

  There is never a problem displaying the pages when loaded into the browser
  direct from my hard drive.

  This problem is not a one-off, but seems to have been consistent over many
  months.

  What could be causing this latency?

  Don Penlington
   From the Beach at Surfers Paradise in sunny Queensland.
  Computer tutorials, local scenery,  and other things at my website:
  http://users.tpg.com.au/deepend/index1.html


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