TSGL: IE refresh latency

[Russell W. Coover]

I assume you have emptied your Maxthon cache? Or does Maxthon use IEs cache.
If so, you have emptied IEs cache?

Russ Coover

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Don Penlington
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 2:30 AM
To: TSGL List
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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