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IE5.0 does not see updates on IIS4 intranet

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I am currently using IIS 4.0 and Frontpage 2000 to publish an intranet on our network. All workstations run IE 5.0 . The problem I am having is that small changes to an HTML document (spelling correction, or a new paragraph) do not show up when you browse the site. Instead IE 5.0 seems to pull the documents from cache. I can get around this by deleteing all temporary internet files on a workstation, or changeing a file's name in Frontpage 2000. Needless to say, I'm not happy with either "solution". It seems that what ever criteria IE uses to determin whether a webpage has changed, and therefore should be reloaded, is not being met by either Frontpage or IIS.

If anyone has any suggestions as to how I could resolve this problem, I would appreciate it.
 

First of all IIS4 sucks...and FrontPage is garbage.

With IIS4 you can't hit reload in IE to refresh the page...you have to close the browser then reopen the browser then the page will load from the hhd/updated copy instead of cache.

For the flexibility that you are looking, you might want to try out third party Web hosting apps & html editors, such as Apache & Dream Weaver on a Linux box.

 
I agree with Lowtech on a couple things.

FrontPage is garbage. Seriously. It just makes too much IE specific code in their to be taken seriously. ActiveX went nowhere. Skip Frontpage.

I like IIS4, but there are just soooo many bugs in it. It seems like half of the security email I get from MS pertains to some hole in IIS. But, it is just so easy to manage a www site with.

Dreamweaver is excellent .. better than Adobe Cyberstudio, 10 times better than Frontpage - but not as easy. If you buy this (or acquire it from warez d00dz), there will be a learning curve. But, it is well worth it.

Anyhow, I have this problem as well. If you just hit the F5 key when looking at a web page, it generally will update it straight from the source and bypass cache. It works for me, so it should work for you.
 
You may have some success with setting the page to expire.

Within the <head></head>, add this tag:

<meta http-equiv=&quot;expires&quot; content=&quot;(date)&quot;> where date = some date prior to today.

Check up-to-date html references for exact syntax, but what this should do is indicate to the browser that it should not load the page from cache since it is out of date.

~Ladi
 
First two clarifications on the problematic behavior. Hitting F5 did not refresh the webpage from the server, and restarting IE did not solve anything either. The only way (from the client side) to get the updates to show was to delete all temporary internet files.

Everyone tip their hat to Ladi. That solution worked.

Now the W98 clients can get updates immediately by clicking a link to the updated document. For some reason the NT clients only get the update if they hit F5 while looking at the document, but since I have the only NT machines it?s nothing I?m going to worry about right now.

The only silver lining is that if MS did not consistently role out such $hit, companies wouldn?t need to hire people like us 🙂
 
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