[Zope] really really refresh again

Robin Becker robin@jessikat.demon.co.uk
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:13:08 +0100


In article <199907151233.WAA07348@mbuna.arbhome.com.au>, Anthony Baxter
<anthony@interlink.com.au> writes
>
>>>> Robin Becker wrote
>> I started the stupid refresh question last month. Now I'm trying to use
>> the Poll product as a starter/learner. I cannot get the images to
>> refresh properly.
>[..]
>> This gif refresh problem must happen to others. Any ideas?
>
>a) Find a baseball bat. Drive a couple of nails through the end.
>b) Now visit Netscape and Microsoft's browser development team, and
>ask them (using results from a), above) politely to actually look at
>the expires header for images.
>
>Alternately, hit shift-reload, or make sure you refer to the image as
>something like image.gif?timestamp=<curtime> in your page.
yes I've come to this conclusion as well grrrhhhh!
>
>Both the major browsers are incredibly stupid, and will cache images
>in a way that could best be described as "naughty".
>
>(On a related note - setting 'Pragma: no-cache' in a server _should_
>have no effect. It's a client-set thing, to stop caches serving a 
>cached copy).
>
>Anthony, in a hostile mood towards browser authors (see next post from me).

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Robin Becker