TSGL: IE refresh latency--explanation?

[Don Penlington]

I think I've figured out what's happening, thanks to your many and varied 
suggestions.

When any web page is called up by a viewer, it remains in the host's cache 
for a certain number of hours before it gets deleted.

This would, I think, explain why the ftp software shows the newly-loaded 
page ("View source") on the host but the browser is downloading the old 
page from the cache. If I "view source" on the downloaded page in browser, 
it shows the old coding.

I tried Will's idea of deleting the page before re-loading it, but that 
didn't make any difference. Nor would I expect it to if my explanation is 
correct, as the old page would remain in the server cache.

Does that sound logical?

It's a darned nuisance when you're in the middle of refreshing a website, 
as you can't check your results until next day. But it does result in 
almost instant downloads of each page.

Do all web hosts work that way I wonder?

Another possibility I guess is that my ISP caches all web pages for a 
certain time, though that wouldn't make a lot of sense as it would 
effectively disable the refresh button.

Don Penlington
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