Re: Pressing reload in browser still uses cached page
amb-Uxr6IM1mbv2TY6FTCsQk+9Bc4/[email protected] (Andrew M. Bishop)
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Ed Avis <[email protected]> writes: > 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. > My config file is vanilla, apart from the following differences: > - request-changed = 10m > + request-changed = -1 This would seem to be the one that is causing the problem. It says that the page is not to be refetched when online. [<URL-SPEC>] request-changed = (time) While online pages will only be fetched if the cached version is older than this specified time in seconds (default=600). Setting this value negative will indicate that cached pages are always used while online. Longer times can be specified with a 'm', 'h', 'd' or 'w' suffix for minutes, hours, days or weeks (e.g. 10m=600). Setting this value to something reasonably large (for example a day) should make this page refresh again. > 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. There are two things that pressing reload in a browser can do. it can either ask the proxy for another copy of the same page or demand that the proxy get a new version of the same page. I don't know what browser you are using, but it seems that it is only asking for a new page and not demanding that one is fetched. You could try holding shift or control when pressing reload to see if it forces the reload. -- Andrew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew M. Bishop amb-Uxr6IM1mbv2TY6FTCsQk+9Bc4/[email protected] http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/ WWWOFFLE users page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.8/user.html