Refreshing new changes...

[Tim356]

I've been updating a basic html page for a friend at work, they have a website dedicated to their horses. Anyway, everytime I update these pages, I let them know I've finished and then I get a phone call saying "The page still looks the same"... "hit refresh" I tell them, then it works fine.

Now they aren't happy with this as they get about 500 hits a month and they don't want other people who's browser's are caching the pages to have this problem.

How can I get around it? Is there anything I can do to the code to fix this? The code calls a javascript file (for the menu), which appears to not be cached at all, can I add something to this menu to refresh the browser? Or would that not work?

[Webforumz Staff]

I assume your friend is using IE.

IE will only check for new content on a page if you have not been to that page in the current session. Tell your friend to try this... Hit his web page - then you make a change. He should then close IE, re-launch IE using the Internet explorer icon (not "new window") and hit the site again. He will notice the change.

I doubt that many of his users would visit his page twice in the same session, but if he's still not happy there are things you can do.

This link is a little out of date but may give your some pointers. Some of the workarounds are *not* valid HTML however, so he'll have to accept one or the other.

[Tim356]

Thanks Sirkent!