Re: IE 5.5 / 6.0 If-None-Match errors - Question

I should have posted something here earlier, but we are still actually 
fighting with the problem.

Several things seem to be happening. Problems get reported by users of IE 
6.0 for XP, but no problems for W2K users of IE. On the Mac Classic 
platform IE 5 and 5.1 have shown the problems.

At first we thought it was the meta tags,  then we thought it was java and 
javascript. We have now eliminated those as the problem, and I don't 
believe the automated site building tool is the problem either. We believe 
it has something to do with the CSS cascading Style Sheets and they way 
they interact with the caching mechanism on the IE browser.

For example, we make a change on a page, and a mac user reloads that page, 
getting it to mostly come up, but all the graphics show as bad links. Or 
the original problems persists for the Mac user, but it would be fixed for 
the XP IE user. It turns out that you have to clear your IE Global History 
cache, as well as all others, and the problem seems to go away.

So, Currently, we have pulled off all java and javascript (And I think CSS, 
I'll have to ask the designer) and had anyone who complained clear their 
histories, and all seems to be working now. We will start adding in 
javascript again shortly after we are sure no one else is experiencing a 
problem.

Sorry I couldn't give everyone the definitive answer, but that is where 
things sit at the moment.

Jeff

At 01:26 PM 2/15/2002 -0500, Martin Randall wrote:
>Hello clemensF
>
>On 04-Feb-02, you wrote:
>
> >> Jeff Moss:
> >
> >> OK, I've found the answer I believe.. It had to do with a mangled meta
> >> tag generated by an automated tool. Once the headers were sorted out
> >> everything was OK.
> >
> > that's nice.  most people check their problems with us, but rarely their
> > solutions.  please keep us posted.
> >
> > clemens fischer
> >
>
>
>To true.
>
>Why don't you provide more information to enlighten us to such problems e.g.
>
>1)   What was the mangles meta tag, what should the tag have been
>
>2)   What automated tool including version
>
>Regards...Martin
>Regards...Martin
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