[Xitami] Browser Refresh

[Thomas J. Hruska]

At 10:27 AM 4/1/2003 -0500, Vince Napoli writeth:
>When running Xitami Internet Explorer is not automatically refreshing the
default.html 
>even though we have IE set to automatically refresh the page.
>
>Is there something in the web server that dictates this action?

Check your server logs for HTTP '304' responses when you request the
'default.html' page.  That response indicates to the browser that the page
in its cache is current and to use the cached copy instead of downloading
the page from the server.  This cuts down on bandwidth usage and increases
the overall speed of retrieving the webpage, but does introduce fun
problems for developers to deal with.

Hope this helps!


          Thomas J. Hruska -- shinelight@shininglightpro.com
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