Re: Browser caching gnatsweb pages

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 17:14 03.10.2001 +0200, Lars Henriksen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have set up gnats 3.113.1 with gnatsweb 2.9.0 without much trouble.
>
> I am experimenting with several gnats databases and have a small
> problem with gnatsweb. When I want to "login again" and select
> another database, my browser serves me the old "Main page", and
> only after a reload do I get access to the new database. I assume
> this is a browser caching problem. How do I avoid the extra "reload"?

Interesting. I thought all browsers were able to figure out with reasonable 
accuracy when a page has been generated dynamically. You may have this 
functionality switched off in your browser preferences.

Anyway, you should be able to fix this by having the browser check whether 
the page has been changed on every visit. In MS Internet Explorer, this is 
done by going to Tools > Internet Options, then click Settings in the 
Temporary Internet Files section of the window that appears. Then choose 
the "Every Visit" option (I run Norwegian Windows, so the translations here 
may not be entirely accurate).

In Netscape, Choose Edit > Preferences and then click the plus sign next to 
"Advanced" in the left window pane. Choose the subitem Cache and then 
choose the "every time" option.

Hope this helps,

Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer