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Hello,

I'm developing a site with many pages that are updated daily. I need
a way to force the browser to load the page from the server on each
visit. Most of these pages are Office documents that are saved as HTML
docs so even if meta tags worked, I can't use them readily. Is there
any way to force the load from server?
I would really appreciate any information you can give me on this topic.
Thank you.

Alan

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Neil Lathwood

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you want to add this in to your html page in between the <head> and </head>
tags:

obviousley you can change this how want, just set it before the day you
upload the file, i think their is also a META command to stop the page from
being cached which you could also use but i couldn't find it at the time.

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Neil Lathwood

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Found the no cache thing but it doesn't work in all browsers, the other
thing you could try is a JavaScript to do the job.
Anyway here is the code:

Neil

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Thanks for the reply. I've tried meta tags already. I find they
occasionally work how i expect them to work. Either way, I can't easily
attach meta tags to office docs saved as HTML's cause these docs are
edited each day and resaved... unless there's something i don't know
about. If there is a way to do that, I would gladly try it.

some of the sites i've been looking at, eg: www.exn.ca/science, don't
have meta tags but they load from server each time i visit. Maybe
there's some work around?

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Neil Lathwood

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If it is an office document that is saved as html then (too my knowledge)
you will have to use something like cgi to process the page so that it is
requested each time.

Neil

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On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:47:54 +0100, "Neil Lathwood"
<l...@gameonline.co.uk> wrote:

>you want to add this in to your html page in between the <head> and </head>
>tags:
>
><META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="Fri, 21 July 2000 16:00:00 GMT">

Instead of poking this into every html page, configure the webserver
to include an expiry date as part of the HTTP header, a much neater
solution.

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Yeah, thats exactly what I ended up doing. The networking guy is on
vacation so I was changing some permissions on the web server myself and
I stumbled across an expiry option on the server. Loads from server
each time now. beautiful... Now I just have to figure out how to get
the damn office documents to load on the webpage with headers and
foooters and print from teh web with headers and footers.

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