Sentech cache problems?

[Jhbgirl]

I have found that some sites, for example, http://www.teenzone.za.net
, seem to be cached with out-dated pages, this became apparent when my son tried to open teenzone, and found the website under construction statement, while my husband was able to open it through his connection at work. We have cleaned the cache on all our browsers but it still won't show the updated pages. Any ideas?

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[Jhbgirl]

I've managed to get it working using Ctrl-F5.

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[lewstherin]

That means you were having a problem with your browser caching. For once its not Sentech's fault []

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[Jhbgirl]

Yay

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[Turtle]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by lewstherin</i>
<br />That means you were having a problem with your browser caching. For once its not Sentech's fault []
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Well, it might still have been Sentech's "fault". It can happen that the proxy delivers an outdated page, and when you hit e.g. Ctrl+R in Firefox, the proxy will actually re-check to see if there is a newer version of the page. I know this works with non-transparent proxies as the refresh request is explicit, but I'm not exactly sure how transparent proxies pick up refresh requests. In any case, it's not really Sentech's fault anyway as it's not really a "bug", it's just a "feature" of proxies in general - sometimes you get outdated pages if you don't explicitly refresh.

 

[andres101]

i'm running squid at at the office and have not once recieved a outdated page (that i'm aware of). it might be that their "rules" are set diffrently to mine, but whenever i hit the refresh button, I get non-cached content. it even re-downloads all the pictures on that page!

Ctrl+Refresh (F5) forces IE to not use the local cache, as far as i know, the http request sent looks exactly the same as a normal Resfresh.

 

[Brolloks]

You can always set the cache to be cleared automatically everytime you exit IE. You always get fresh content delivered daily. Like fresh bread, milk and sometimes fresh petrol

 

[Jhbgirl]

I can't understand why it would have been a browser problem. I tried it on 4 different machines, but anyway, found out abt ctrl-f5 so it's not an issue anymore.

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[Brolloks]

If it's the same browser and the same version then it could be a *gasp* browser error. Not that you would expect a big company like MS to make such an error ... would you?

 

[Jhbgirl]

Oh and I tried it on Mozilla too

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[Brolloks]

Damn there goes my theory