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Forced Refresh?


Woody

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Hello again folks. Is it possible to force a "refresh" when a visitor opens a page on my website which has been updated since their last visit? Every time I update a page, my son has to be told to refresh the page in order to see the changes. Thanks in advance! -Woody

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You can set these headers, so a user's browser doesn't cache your pages:

 

Cache-control: private

Pragma: no-cache

Expires: (a date in the past)

 

But you need some kind of server-side code, ASP/PHP etc, also don't think it's a good practice for performance. But this is a beginners section, don't know if I should go in detail here. So I'll just leave it at that.

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Meta refresh redirects have been used by spammers to fool search engines. So search engines remove those sites from their database. If you use a lot of meta refresh tags to redirect pages, the search engines may decide your site is spam and delete it from their index.

 

Below is just a refresh with no redirect.

 

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="600">

 

 

600 the amount of time in seconds the browser should refresh page.

Edited by Webkiller
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Oh my god, How can I forget <meta> tags lol. But Webkiller, OP is not looking for a way to refresh a page, he wants a way to refresh the cache in a user's browser. But thanks for reminding me about <meta> tag

 

Disregard what I said above, you don't really need server side code, you can bung those above that I mentioned into a <meta> tag.

 

This is a good place to read about those cache controlling meta tags: http://www.i18nguy.com/markup/metatags.html

 

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="EXPIRES" CONTENT="Mon, 22 Jul 2002 11:12:01 GMT">

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