[PHPLIB] Nope, you won't fool MSIE.... From: Fabrizio Ermini (f.ermini <email protected>)
Date: 10/25/99

...It'll never believe that it REALLY needs to reload a document unless it's
really necessary.

I've used Phplib 7 + session.inc from current CVS tu build a rather complex
site. Now I've realized that MSIE 4.0 is still happily caching pages, even if I
opted for the default (not cached) sess object!!!

I've got a dinamic index page, that "include"s a different piece of code
depending what is passed via get metohd (index.html?id=x&operation=y, ecc.
ecc.). Well, if I reload that page from MSIE, it keeps showing me the same
page, even if the included code should give a different output! The only way
I've found it really reloads the page is if i TOUCH the index.html file. Then,
it reloads everything. It seems that MSIE ignores every header, and goes
straight to the filesystem "last-modified" to decide if reloading a page or
not.

I've even tried to put in the pages the good ol'fashioned
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="Mon, 06 Jan 1990 00:00:01 GMT">
but to no avail.

Besides going to bash some head in Redmond, there's some other way to tell to
MSIE to definitely NOT cache pages, dammit????

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  Fabrizio Ermini e-mail:
  C.so Umberto, 7 f.ermini <email protected>
  loc. Meleto Valdarno faermini <email protected>
  52020 Cavriglia (AR) ICQ UIN: 24.64.37
  ITALY

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