Right. They have proxy servers to cache all pages and this causes a lot of 
problems for AOL customers who then believe that it is your fault (because 
AOL is the best ISP in existence). I used to work at a place that did live 
sports broadcasts and AOL customers kept hitting cached pages and couldn't 
get the link to the broadcast when we updated the site to make the 
broadcast available. So we got lots of tech support calls where AOL 
customers said "Why aren't you broadcasting the game?"

At 06:28 PM 9/20/00 -0400, you wrote:
>sometime the problem with AOL is the way it caches everything it finds.
>
>using the cfheader tag you can manually expire the cache.
>
>I cannot remember the exact syntax but it can be done.
>
>At 03:59 PM 9/20/2000 -0600, you wrote:
> >All,
> >
> >I have an paid interactive site, all CF with database queries and tests,  it
> >seems that people using AOL keep getting bumped off, and other glitches seem
> >to happen.  Enough that it causes extreme frustration.  Even then the
> >customer won't move to a regular ISP.  The question is what is that AOL does
> >in their world that causes so much grief in mine?  Any insight?  Is this
> >resolveable?  Are AOL and CF incompatible?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Richard
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