clearing cache

Good morning,

I had a couple of people look at a site which I am doing. One person kept clearing the cache but still saw the bad version.
I have done multiple uploads with changes on them.

Is there a way I can clear the cache on the server so this does not happen?

Julie


offtopic mailing list
email@hidden
Update your subscriptions at:
http://freewaytalk.net/person/options

No, the cache, by definition, is between your server and their browser
(or in their browser). There can be multiple caches involved here –
some ISPs cache all web requests for a certain period of time, as a
way of reducing their upstream bandwidth costs. One thing you can ask
your client to try is to add a “junk” querystring to the end of the URL:

Old: http://example.com/stuck_page.html

New: http://example.com/stuck_page.html?123abc

This won’t magically un-stick cached images, say there’s a large image
on the page which is the only real change to the page – in that case,
renaming the picture in Freeway and uploading will definitely fix
that. Just add an a to the end of the item name, so its filename
changes, and you should break any cached version.

If you are hosting this on a Windows IIS, it’s often necessary to
restart the Web service to break the cache there. But if you’re on
your usual HaveHost server, you aren’t on Windows.

Walter

On Sep 20, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Julie Maxwell Allen wrote:

Good morning,

I had a couple of people look at a site which I am doing. One person
kept clearing the cache but still saw the bad version.
I have done multiple uploads with changes on them.

Is there a way I can clear the cache on the server so this does not
happen?

Julie


offtopic mailing list
email@hidden
Update your subscriptions at:
http://freewaytalk.net/person/options


offtopic mailing list
email@hidden
Update your subscriptions at:
http://freewaytalk.net/person/options

great information as usual! Thank you Walter

Julie
On Sep 20, 2010, at 1:05 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

No, the cache, by definition, is between your server and their browser (or in their browser). There can be multiple caches involved here – some ISPs cache all web requests for a certain period of time, as a way of reducing their upstream bandwidth costs. One thing you can ask your client to try is to add a “junk” querystring to the end of the URL:

Old: http://example.com/stuck_page.html

New: http://example.com/stuck_page.html?123abc

This won’t magically un-stick cached images, say there’s a large image on the page which is the only real change to the page – in that case, renaming the picture in Freeway and uploading will definitely fix that. Just add an a to the end of the item name, so its filename changes, and you should break any cached version.

If you are hosting this on a Windows IIS, it’s often necessary to restart the Web service to break the cache there. But if you’re on your usual HaveHost server, you aren’t on Windows.

Walter

On Sep 20, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Julie Maxwell Allen wrote:

Good morning,

I had a couple of people look at a site which I am doing. One person kept clearing the cache but still saw the bad version.
I have done multiple uploads with changes on them.

Is there a way I can clear the cache on the server so this does not happen?

Julie


offtopic mailing list
email@hidden
Update your subscriptions at:
http://freewaytalk.net/person/options


offtopic mailing list
email@hidden
Update your subscriptions at:
http://freewaytalk.net/person/options


offtopic mailing list
email@hidden
Update your subscriptions at:
http://freewaytalk.net/person/options