Updates there or not?

O

Oscar

I use FP2000 for a club website. I posted some changes last nite, and
notified our officers. One called this morning, to say he could not view the
changes, even after clicking the "Refresh" button repeatedly. If it matters,
he uses AOL. I have no trouble viewing the updates, and I verified I'm
viewing a webpage, rather than something on my hard drive. Is it possible
for the updates to be available thru some ISP's and not thru others?
Thank you,
Oscar
 
R

Ronx

AOL matters!
AOL, as well as some other ISPs, cache pages to "provide a better, faster
service". As far as AOL is concerned it may be between 24 and 48 hours
before the cache is updated, and the changed pages can be seen.
If your officer appends a query to the page name, it may break through the
cache. For example: www.example.com/pagename.htm?
 
S

Steve Easton

Not only does AOL cache pages, they blatantly ignore any efforts to prevent
caching. In other words, any "no cache"
headers or scripts you may use are ignored. ( but then so does any IE
version higher than 4.0 )
The only pages they don't cache are from https:// servers.

--
Steve Easton
MS MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
...............................with a computer
 
O

Oscar

Bummer! Thanks, Ron - I appreciate the info. I've learned my new lesson for
the day, guess I can go back to bed! <:))
Oscar
 
J

JL Amerson

Have your friend go online with AOL. After it's up and running, minimize AOL
and open Internet Explorer (or Netscape). See if he sees those changes in
that browser.

I was an AOHell user for 7+ years. During the last year I spent more time
browsing in IE than I did in AOL's browser.
 
S

Steve Easton

If AOL is installed, IE is installed because AOL uses the IE browser. There
is a copy of IE on every AOL CD.

It's just a matter of making IE show the Icon on the desktop and then
configuring the IE properties.
;-)

--
Steve Easton
MS MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
...............................with a computer

Mr B said:
That's what I was going to recommend. Just because you use AOL to get
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online doesn't mean you have to use AOL to browse the web. Youc an go in IE
and set it so that whe youopen it up it automatically dials AOL for you at
the same time.
If the person opens up IE and just gets some stupid page about how it
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works with AOL, then it's not actually isntalled and he would have to go
download IE. My sister-in-law had this problem on their computer. Had AOL
but IE wasn't there so we had to downlaod it (damn that took forever) but
then it worked fine.
Otherwise you'd have to look and see if AOL has a setting similar to the
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"CHeck for newer version of pages..." options and set it for Always.
 
S

Stefan B Rusynko

AOL uses a branded special version of IE (for now)
Better to say if Windows is installed IE is installed




| If AOL is installed, IE is installed because AOL uses the IE browser. There
| is a copy of IE on every AOL CD.
|
| It's just a matter of making IE show the Icon on the desktop and then
| configuring the IE properties.
| ;-)
|
| --
| Steve Easton
| MS MVP FrontPage
| 95isalive
| This site is best viewed..................
| ..............................with a computer
|
| | > That's what I was going to recommend. Just because you use AOL to get
| online doesn't mean you have to use AOL to browse the web. Youc an go in IE
| and set it so that whe youopen it up it automatically dials AOL for you at
| the same time.
| >
| > If the person opens up IE and just gets some stupid page about how it
| works with AOL, then it's not actually isntalled and he would have to go
| download IE. My sister-in-law had this problem on their computer. Had AOL
| but IE wasn't there so we had to downlaod it (damn that took forever) but
| then it worked fine.
| >
| > Otherwise you'd have to look and see if AOL has a setting similar to the
| "CHeck for newer version of pages..." options and set it for Always.
| >
|
|
 
S

Steve Easton

Good point.
I was thinking of the 9X days.
;-)

--
Steve Easton
MS MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
...............................with a computer
 
D

Don

Oscar,

Old Pages displayed and refresh won't work?
Try a forced refresh. Hold down the shift key while clicking on the refresh
button.

I once had Starband and had the same problem with cashed pages.

xmas
www.xmas-i-am.com
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| Bummer! Thanks, Ron - I appreciate the info. I've learned my new lesson
for
| the day, guess I can go back to bed! <:))
| Oscar
|
| | > AOL matters!
| > AOL, as well as some other ISPs, cache pages to "provide a better,
faster
| > service". As far as AOL is concerned it may be between 24 and 48 hours
| > before the cache is updated, and the changed pages can be seen.
| > If your officer appends a query to the page name, it may break through
the
| > cache. For example: www.example.com/pagename.htm?
| >
| > --
| > Ron
| > Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
| > | > > I use FP2000 for a club website. I posted some changes last nite, and
| > > notified our officers. One called this morning, to say he could not
view
| > the
| > > changes, even after clicking the "Refresh" button repeatedly. If it
| > matters,
| > > he uses AOL. I have no trouble viewing the updates, and I verified I'm
| > > viewing a webpage, rather than something on my hard drive. Is it
| possible
| > > for the updates to be available thru some ISP's and not thru others?
| > > Thank you,
| > > Oscar
| > >
| > >
| >
| >
|
|
 
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