Page Refresh

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I have written a guestbook script in ASP. How can I make a page refresh itself whenever it is loaded instead of reading from cache? Each page must be refreshed so that new guestbook entries are visible.

:: Lloyd Hassell :: http://www14.brinkster.com/lloydh ::

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inserting these meta tags should make sure that your page doesn't get cached.

<META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="0">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Cache-Control" CONTENT="no-cache">

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That's the way I learned to do a no-cache thing. I did a little research on it, and

<META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="0">
Tells the browser to expire the page immediately and

<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">

tells it to not cache it. This one is an old one and is not supported by IE.

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Cache-Control" CONTENT="no-cache">

Specifies the action of cache agents. Possible values:

Public - may be cached in public shared caches
Private - may only be cached in private cache
no-cache - may not be cached
no-store - may be cached but not archived

I hope that helps you and personally, I would use all three just in case.

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Thankyou Arielladog. I will play around with those meta tags. Do I need all three?

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Thanks for that info. I have noticed that those meta tags only work inside the head of a document. Now my problem has been solved.

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