Thanks Niklas,
Yes it is a solution, but it requires some code changes for my build tool I
have looked for if it is configurable on ftp server.
Thanks.

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Niklas Gustavsson <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 7:59 AM, bisanthe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am
> > curious about that, is there an option in ftp server to force ftp clients
> > not to use local cache.
> > Always ask for latest content from ftp server ? May ftp server can send a
> > header to client about that.
>
> Short answer: the FTP protocol has no notion of caching and thus no
> way for a server to force clients to purge their caches.
>
> Now, I don't know how browsers cache FTP results, but I would suspect
> that if each of your emails contained a unique URL (say a generated
> directory name, e.g. ftp://my-domain/build/8934893483), perhaps that
> would force the browser to actually load from the server.
>
> /niklas
>

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