Sometimes a random query string does not work. Changing the filename itself works 100% of the time.
Eg. style-<scm-revision-number>.css Manu On 03/08/2012, at 1:25 PM, James Ducker <james.duc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Append some junk querystring to the end of the URL, like > example.com/index.html?20120803132400. Every time it changes, stuff will be > refreshed. Wouldn't really recommend doing it for regular pages because it > makes the URLs look messy, but if you're trying to refresh scripts or images, > go nuts. > > James > > > On 21 July 2012 03:22, Rob Crowther <robe...@boogdesign.com> wrote: > On 20/07/2012 17:47, coder wrote: > How can I make a web page appear as the latest version in all browsers, > i.e., perform a cache bypass? And I don't mean for me - I mean for all > visitors to the page? Is it possible? > ?? > Once it's cached in the browser there's not much you can do about it, the > browser will store the cache settings at the time when it cached the page and > if those settings say "don't check again for a month" then, generally, it > won't. > > If you want the page to never be cached then you need to set the expiry > header. With Apache servers this is quite straightforward and can usually be > done in the directory's .htaccess file: > > ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 0 seconds" > > This is example was take from HTML5 BoilerPlate: > > https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/83f4f281866be1cf7f391738c53c448a5ac658e9/.htaccess#L233 > > > Rob > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > > > > -- > James Ducker > james.duc...@gmail.com > +61 404 838 470 > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
