On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:35:23AM -0600, Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 05:32:19PM +0000, Miciah Dashiel Butler Masters wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 01:41:38PM -0600, Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 06:39:23AM +0000, Miciah Dashiel Butler Masters 
> > > wrote:
> > > > Go to Setup -> Options manager -> Document -> Cache -> Ignore
> > > > cache-control info from server and set that option to 0.
> > > 
> > > I forgot about that option.  That's already set to 0.
> > 
> > When you say 'already', do you mean that you have the problem even with
> > the option disabled?
> 
> Yes, that's what I meant.  Sorry about the confusion.

Looking at the document, I don't see any headers to indicate that ELinks
should reload it:

   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
   Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:42:19 GMT
   Server: Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a
   Vary: Accept-Encoding
   Last-Modified: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:42:01 GMT
   ETag: "8d4622-c8b2-44be6ee9"
   Accept-Ranges: bytes
   Connection: close
   Content-Type: text/html
   Content-Encoding: gzip
   Content-Length: 18374

Do the browsers with which you are familiar actually check every time
when you view a document (presumably using the HTTP If-Modified-Since
header) whether there is a newer copy on the server?

ELinks could do that, but it would be a little complex, and far too
slow. I can't even stand the behaviour with ignore_cache_control
disabled, which only affects documents that explicitely signal that they
should be reloaded from the server. Such behaviour might be acceptable
if done in the background, but then it would be a bit confusing (you
load the document, you start to read it, then it suddenly updates while
you're in the middling of reading it).

-- 
Miciah Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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