Forcing browser to clear cache...

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Brightbelt

Hello -
I'm on FP 2003, Win XP pro. I've redesigned a site's main templates and
background photo recently thru CSS and when my client views it on AOL, the
old images are apparently stuck somewhere in its cache so that the present
new image appears fuzzy. (Internet Explorer does better.) After clearing the
internet history several times, we got it to clear.
Is there a standard way to force a browser to clear the cache and load
the latest page ? I've googled this and alot of different info pops up, but
I don't know which method to trust. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanks, Frank Bright

PS In case Murray hasn't seen my reply below, Thanks for telling me about
the CSS rule of Greater Specificity.
 
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Kevin Spencer

You can use META tags in your <head> section to add headers to the HTTP
message. Here are a couple that may be of help:

<META http-equiv="Expires" content="Mon, 1 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT"> - expires
prior to today
<META http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache"> - do not cache this page

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
A watched clock never boils.
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

If the image appears fuzzy, then AOL is compressing the image. Your client will need to disable
AOL's image compression.

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Andrew Murray

Brightbelt said:
Hello -
I'm on FP 2003, Win XP pro. I've redesigned a site's main templates and
background photo recently thru CSS and when my client views it on AOL, the
old images are apparently stuck somewhere in its cache so that the present
new image appears fuzzy. (Internet Explorer does better.) After clearing
the internet history several times, we got it to clear.
Is there a standard way to force a browser to clear the cache and load
the latest page ? I've googled this and alot of different info pops up,
but I don't know which method to trust. Any ideas would be much
appreciated. Thanks, Frank Bright

PS In case Murray hasn't seen my reply below, Thanks for telling me about
the CSS rule of Greater Specificity.
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