Pressing reload in browser still uses cached page

I'm having a problem viewing <http://freshmeat.net/> where the cached
page dates from May 2004 and pressing reload in the web browser
(Mozilla) doesn't cause wwwoffled to contact the server for a fresh
version.  I set log-level=debug in the config file, restarted
wwwoffled and put it online, and pressed Reload in the browser.  The
output in /var/log/messages is:

Aug 15 13:48:25 Vigor10 wwwoffled: wwwoffled startup succeeded
Aug 15 13:48:28 Vigor10 wwwoffled[7976]: WWWOFFLE Connection from host localhost
.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Aug 15 13:48:28 Vigor10 wwwoffled[7976]: WWWOFFLE Online.
Aug 15 13:48:37 Vigor10 wwwoffled[7976]: HTTP Proxy connection from host localho
st.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Aug 15 13:48:37 Vigor10 wwwoffles[7983]: URL='http://freshmeat.net/'.
Aug 15 13:48:37 Vigor10 wwwoffles[7983]: Cache Access Status='Cached Page Used'.
Aug 15 13:48:37 Vigor10 wwwoffled[7976]: Forked wwwoffles -real (pid=7983).

My config file is vanilla, apart from the following differences:

- spool-dir         = /var/spool/wwwoffle
+ spool-dir         = /home/var_spool_wwwoffle

- log-level             = important
+ log-level             = debug

- request-changed       = 10m
+ request-changed       = -1

- request-redirection   = no
+ request-redirection   = yes

- age           = 4w
+ age           = -1

- compress-age  = -1
+ compress-age  = 0

The Reload button seems to work most of the time, although I did
notice odd problems with other sites.  This started when I upgraded to
2.8c, although I tried downgrading again to 2.8b and the problem was
still there, so I don't know what really changed.

Is this a bug in wwwoffled?  I thought that pressing reload in the
browser should always cause wwwoffle to contact the web server if it
is online.

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Ed Avis <[email protected]>