Re: Reloading changes JS files?

Richard Heyes wrote: >> When you do an explicit "refresh" or "reload" in your browser, it >> should ignore whatever it's got cached and refetch your javascript >> files regardless. > > With Interweb Explorer you need to hold down CTRL and CLICK on refresh > (as opposed to pressing CTRL+R say) to get a fresh copy. I guess it > depends on the headers you send on the page. Doing this will send a: > > Cache-Control: no-cache > > request header. Any cache-instructions on the request are really for intermediate caches and proxies only. The webserver itself doesn't do anything with them. If you send an unconditional fetch, you will get a document served. I don't know if an explicit refresh will cause the browser to do conditional gets or not, but it probably will. /Per Jessen, Zürich