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Hi all, not sure if this is the right forum in not please transfer me.
Ok my problem is I need to add some code, preferable HTML or XHTML I think to the HEAD TAG. Ive been running a site for sometime now and just realized that some people are still seeing the site from say Tuesday when I updated it on Thursday, how or what can I add so if the site has been stored in the users cache without being cleared after there visit it will automatically update it's self?
If this makes sense?
Cheers
Browser caching is normally controlled by sending the appropriate HTTP headers when the page is served. If your old pages have been served with cache control headers that say they're still valid and don't need to be re-checked, then there's nothing you can do about it other than to wait for them to expire.
The caching tutorial is a good introduction to this complex topic.
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Thanks Cuckoo
So what will I did to do so every time somebody comes to my site, they will get the very latest up to date content?
You mention appropriate HTTP headers, cache control headers ?
This is how my page looks:
Something I need to add?HTML Code:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>test</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="test title"> <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="test, test1, test2"> <meta name="revisit-after" content="15 days"> <META NAME="Language" CONTENT="english"> <META NAME="Robots" CONTENT="All">
upadate just got the link cheers, quite a lot of reading on this subject
That's the problem: you can't do anything about it now (other than to change the URI). If the pages you have already served say that they should be considered 'fresh' for a long time, browsers may not even bother to ask your server if there's anything newer. It's not something you can change after the fact.Originally Posted by computerbarry
Those are just meta elements, which may be ignored by user agents. You need to set up your server to send the appropriate real HTTP headers for cache control. Real HTTP headers always take precedence over meta elements.Something I need to add?
Birnam wood is come to Dunsinane
You might want to go over to mnot.net and check out the cacheability test/recommendation links on the left side.
Do what they don't recommend for the one page that is of interest to you.
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