There have been a lot of threads on here in the past about getting browsers to automatically show updated versions of your site pages instead of drawing from the cache.
I read recently that a good way to achieve this is to always put the full url as the link.
In Freeway this would of course mean setting each link up as an ‘external’ link and typing in the full url thereby forcing the browser to always download the page from the server.
Does anyone have any experience of this and does it work without slowing up the site too much (I guess a lot depends on page content)
This won’t make any difference, in my experience. The only thing that governs whether a server will use it’s cache or a full external request is the various cache-control headers sent by the original server when the page was initially requested. You don’t have control over these in a normal HTML page. You do in an application server environment (where the pages are constructed by the server on the fly, and may not literally exist at all).
Thanks Walter, I did wonder about the validity but at the same time I was keen to see if it had made any difference for anyone.
Mark
On 21 Jul 2010, 1:19 pm, waltd wrote:
This won’t make any difference, in my experience. The only thing that governs whether a server will use it’s cache or a full external request is the various cache-control headers sent by the original server when the page was initially requested. You don’t have control over these in a normal HTML page. You do in an application server environment (where the pages are constructed by the server on the fly, and may not literally exist at all).