Caching problem with revlets

Thu Dec 3 17:58:53 EST 2009

Martin,

Thanks. I only wish I knew what you are talking about! I will read the 
article.

The revlet is stored on a GoDaddy server. Is that apache? Can I do the 
things you suggest, given where it is stored?

Richard

Martin Baxter wrote:
> 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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