At 22:50 1999-03-09 , Dancer wrote:
>Matthew Zito wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We set squid up to act as a virtual accelerator for our heavily loaded web
>> server. The problem became that Internet Explorer would not send a
>> no-cache header to the server when you hit shift+reload, and so people
>> couldn't see their changes. Netscape does it fine- just hold down shift
>> and hit reload, and squid would re-fetch the pages. But IE will not do
>> it. I found a reply to a post on dejanews that mentioned something about
>> IE not sending a no-cache header no matter what unless there was a manual
>> proxy configured. Is that true, and if so, has anyone found a workaround?
>
>I reported this to M$ a couple years ago. No dice. AFAIK, no workaround
>has ever shown up.
>
>D
I've got the same problem myself. I believe it can be 'solved' by user
entering www.HoStNaMe.com instead of www.hostname.com.
Not sure though, but it's a trick that works for most caches, except
the 'intelligent' ones that understands it's the same host.
Regards,
Robban
RobTex http://www.robtex.com/
home of JavaMachine, SuperSearch,
VikingServer and Robban's Homepage.
Apologies for delayed answers
