html/frames/refresh

[irishgirl]

hi...... hope somebody can help!!!! this is really annoying me, i have a page, that i need to be take direct from my webserver each time a user looks at it, but it currently looks at mt cash on my computer. I'm using frames on my page. The left hand page is not reloading each time, in my main page i have the following

<META HTTP-EQUIV="no-cache">

but this seems to make no difference, can anybody help me?


many thanks in advance.......

[PhillMc]

hmm. We'd be able to help you more if we could see more of the source, I cant get very far with one LOC.

[maverik_30]

you may want to disable caching on your web browser.

[PeOfEo]

<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Cache-control" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Cache-control" content="must-revalidate">
<meta http-equiv="Cache-control" content="max-age=0">
try those

[Ben Rogers]

Originally posted by PeOfEo
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Cache-control" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Cache-control" content="must-revalidate">
<meta http-equiv="Cache-control" content="max-age=0">
try those

Wouldn't

<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0" /> 

be more valid?

[PeOfEo]

except it should be ; instead of , . Might be might not. Try it and see. I just yanked that from a news site so...

[irishgirl]

hi guys, thats for all your help, but nothing seems to work, it still resuires me to hit f5 to force a browser refresh? is this odd???

[PhillMc]

If you want the site to auto update itself, throw in a refresh meta and set it to like 5, maybe 10 seconds. You're gonna be forces to refresh manually other wise.

[Ben Rogers]

hmm... well theres a meta tag that makes it so a page "expires" i don't know if that's what you want tho, i've never tried it...

<meta http-equiv="expires" content="Day, date-mon-year 12:00:00" />

<meta http-equiv="expires" content="now" /> 

EDIT: Had to put it in code thingies.

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by omega
hmm... well theres a meta tag that makes it so a page "expires" i don't know if that's what you want tho, i've never tried it...

<meta http-equiv="expires" content="Day, date-mon-year 12:00:00" />

<meta http-equiv="expires" content="now" /> 

EDIT: Had to put it in code thingies.

but to make affective use of that you have to dynamically change that I believe. I do not use a lot of meta tags so I am not the best authority. Meta refresh is a bad idea, that is one good way to annoy the user. Plus it can be disabled by the browser and some browsers just flat out do not support it. So do not expect the worlds best support for meta refresh. I would dare to say less people can do that then can java script.

[Ben Rogers]

I do use mata tags, but not for effect, i use the description, author, keyowrds, copyright, keywords, that kinda thing. they'd be useful.. if i was indexed by google.

[PeOfEo]

Originally posted by omega
I do use mata tags, but not for effect, i use the description, author, keyowrds, copyright, keywords, that kinda thing. they'd be useful.. if i was indexed by google.

google gets many of its sites from www.dmoz.org which is a human edited directory. So in theory you need no keywords for google. You do not need to them for yahoo or alltheweb either.

[Ben Rogers]

'snot like they heart anyone/thing

[daFRD]

irishgirl - ever find a solution?

[Ben Rogers]

a lot of ppl do that, post, then dont reply.