Page is being cached by some server, how to delete it cache **HARD**?

Question

Page is being cached by some server, how to delete it cache **HARD**?

Answer 1

There's a couple things you can do to your PC first. You can go to your browser (I'd recommend Firefox as it is safer), go to the internet options or preferences box and increase the cache size. Once it gets filled it just deletes older files to make room for the new files. There are also modem optimizers that somehow speed up the download and upload speeds on your dial-up modem, DSL or cable modem. Have you tried visiting the same sites at different times of the day to see if the traffic might be an issue? The amount of RAM won't affect downloads because the downloads don't open automatically, and that affects RAM. You could add more RAM but it would only let you open more programs at once or bigger programs that require more memory. Try using a work computer or friend's computer and visit the same sites. If the same thing happens, it's not your computer but just the particular site you're visiting.

Answer 2

Ctrl+F5 when you refresh stops using your browsers cache.

Answer 3

I've very vague on the details, but it seems there's an HTTP meta command that tells machines not to cache the page. A quick Yahoo! on "http nocache" drew up this response:



http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=http+nocache&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz2



Hope that helps.

Answer 4

That shouldn't be happening, are you sure you are correctly uploading the files to your public server? Could we possibly have the IP of the real server to ensure that its not just your internet browser?



I take it you have tried the page in another browser and emptied your local cache? Try FTPing into your public server and ensure that all document revisions are as they should be. I.e. the one you have saved locally is also the same one which is stored remotely.



There is a chance that you have changed something and not uploading to the correct directory. As long as you browse via your IP this problem should not be happening.



Try temporarily adding this to your hosts file:

C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts



85.85.85.85 {tab once here} 85.85.85.85/page.html



That will eliminate any DNS issues that you suspect. You havent recently changed your A and MS/MX records recently have you?



How odd.. Keep us updated!



EDIT: This is a long shot but are you not missing an "l" off the end of the url or putting one on by accident.



i.e. instead of going to 85.85.85.85/page.html go to 85.85.85.85/page.htm??????????



If you have access to PHP use a script similar to the following to disable serverside caching:




header("Cache-Control:no-cache");

header("Pragma:no-cache");

header("Expires:-1");

?>