Caching problem with revlets

Thu Dec 3 16:30:57 EST 2009

Richard

if:

a you are using apache
b mod_expires is installed
c you can use .htaccess files

Then you should be able to use expires directives in an .htaccess file
to inhibit cacheing based on media type (extension).

<http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_expires.html>

I don't know if that will work, I haven't tried it, but I think it has
more chance than cache control meta tags, which are known to be
ineffective IIRC. It's the way I would try and do it anyway.

Also, possibly helpful article on cacheing generally:

<http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/>

Martin Baxter

Richard Miller wrote:
> I really need help with this one.
> 
> To get at the heart of a few problems, I just put some code into my
> revlet to check that when a user opens my revlet, this person actually
> has the latest version. Just got word from one user (Vista + IE) that
> the revlet he recently accessed was an older version. So caching is
> taking place.
> 
> This code doesn't do the job:
> 
> <head>
> <META Http-Equiv="Cache-Control" Content="no-cache">
> <META Http-Equiv="Pragma" Content="no-cache">
> <META Http-Equiv="Expires" Content="0">
> </head>
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> Thanks.
> Richard Miller

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