Web App issues with NetZero

[Chipp Walters]

Hi Dan,

My guess is that Web Zero is running a proxy service which caches 
content. A fix is to set your server to always send fresh content. It's 
a setting in your server. What server are you using?

You also might be able to just send a "No-cache" request in your headers 
as well, which forces the proxy server to get fresh content. Though this 
doesn't always work on all proxy servers.

-Chipp

Dan Soneson wrote:

> I am experiencing something rather unexpected in a  web app that I am 
> developing for my students. I have given them a splash screen 
> application with just the engine, a button with a backscript, and a 
> button that calls a stack down from the web. We’ll call this stack stack 
> 1. The subsequent stack (stack 2) is simply a login screen, with fields 
> for the student’s name and a button that downloads and opens another 
> stack (stack 3) from the web. This third stack also has a set of links 
> that download and open further independent stacks (stacks 4, 5, 6…) as 
> well.
> 
> This arrangement has been working fine for my students until one of my 
> students switched her ISP from AOL to NetZero. When she now uses my 
> splashscreen app, the button that accesses the login screen (stack 2) 
> from the web seems to open a stack that has been cached somewhere. The 
> button on stack 2 apparently can’t find stack 3, so when we click this 
> button the application shuts down.
> 
> It is apparent that the stack 2 which her machine accesses is cached 
> somewhere, because when I add a button to stack 2 and save it on the 
> web, the old stack 2 is still called up on her machine. The problem 
> seems to be connected with NetZero, since when we run her machine 
> through an ethernet connection on our network, everything works just 
> fine. But when we go through the modem by way of NetZero, the old stack 
> 2 appears and apparently cannot find stack 3 (standard “go URL “ 
> command) so the program shuts down.
> 
> Has anyone had experience with this problem and if so, do you know of a 
> workaround? Her machine is a Dell Inspiron laptop running Windows XP. I 
> develop on a Macintosh, but none of the other students seem to have this 
> problem, although they are all running various versions of Windows. I 
> have fiddled around with the Internet control panel on her machine, 
> clearing the cache and the stored list of websites visited, but still 
> the problem persists.
> 
> TIA
> Dan
> 
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