Re: Re: Pressing reload in browser still uses cached page

Ed Avis <[email protected]> writes:

> amb-Uxr6IM1mbv2TY6FTCsQk+9Bc4/[email protected] (Andrew M. Bishop) writes:
> 
> >>pressing reload in the web browser (Mozilla) doesn't cause wwwoffled
> >>to contact the server for a fresh version.
> 
> >>+ 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.
> 
> But I'm sure I always used to have that setting in the config file,
> and it gave the behaviour that the cached version would always be used
> _except_ when hitting the reload button in the browser.  Doing an
> explicit reload would always cause wwwoffled to fetch a fresh copy.
> 
> Is there a way I can get that behaviour with the current release?

WWWOFFLE doesn't know when you have pressed reload in the browser, it
only knows when the browser asks for a forced reload.  In some
browsers these are the same thing and in some browsers they are not.

Personally I prefer a browser where pressing reload does not force a
refresh but just asks WWWOFFLE to decide.  There also needs to be a
way of forcing a reload hence the use of shift-reload or
control-reload.

To work out exactly what is happening you need to run WWWOFFLE with
debugging enabled and see why it decides to give you the same page or
a new page.

-- 
Andrew.
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