Caching OS X system?

subgenius

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I'm a web developer and I've been having a recurring problems with seeing the latest versions of some pages that I post to my clients sites. For example, I posted a page with some changes to the clients site, and if I type the URL followed by a "?", I can see the updated version, but otherwise, it seems to take several hours, even days, for the updated page to make its way onto my computer. I've emptied the cache and any other stored info (cookies, history, saved form info, etc) in every browser I use (Firefox, Safari, and IE), and that doesn't do anything.

I noticed that there's a "Caches" folder in the "Library" folder that may be storing pages, but I'm not sure if I can just trash the "Caches" files to reset the system's cache. Anyone know what to do?
 

Nothinman

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If every browser does it it's not likely a problem with your PC, I would bet your ISP is running you through a transparent proxy that's doing the caching for you. A lot of ISPs will do this to save bandwidth, but they should expire the pages in a more reasonable amount of time.