Re: graphics cached by browser

From: Milan Andric <mandric_at_eecs.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 11:32:07 PST

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:39:55AM -0800, Susan L. Hedgpeth wrote:
> We just changed some graphics on our homepage. Some people's browsers are
> displaying combinations of the old and the new (which looks very
> bad). Sometimes this can be fixed by holding down the Shift key while
> clicking on Reload/Refresh. I also close the browser and open it
> again. And (in IE) go to Tools-->Internet Options and Delete the
> temporary files. But there are cases where even all that does not refresh
> the graphic. Has anyone run into this? What do we do to make sure users
> are seeing the most updated graphics? Thanks.

I think that's about all you can do. Not sure if you already did, but
try a different browser like mozilla to compare, and isolate the issue.
Are you using a proxy by chance? I'm thinking something else might be
caching it along the way, besides the browser.

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Milan
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