[LON-CAPA-users] lag time for external resources?

Jay Sullivan lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:21:00 -0500


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I've resorted to putting the following tag in the header of the external
page and that seems to eliminate the issue:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">

Jay


On Jan 23, 2008 3:14 PM, Gerd Kortemeyer <korte@lite.msu.edu> wrote:

> Please pull up the "Page Source" of the the page you are looking it.
> It should be a frameset, loading the navigation into the top frame
> and the external page into the bottom. Some browsers have a defunct
> cache refresh inside of framesets. On a Mac, I have to shift-reload
> to get frames updated.
>
> On Jan 23, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Jay Sullivan wrote:
>
> > But then shouldn't the new page show up if I refresh the page in
> > LONCAPA?
> >
> > Jay
> >
> > What LON-CAPA does with external resources (I assume stuff outside of
> > LON-CAPA, like http://www.msu.edu/) is simply create a frame with
> > that URL - nothing is cached inside LON-CAPA. So I would assume that
> > it's the browser cache.
>
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I&#39;ve resorted to putting the following tag in the header of the external page and that seems to eliminate the issue:<br><br>&lt;META HTTP-EQUIV=&quot;CACHE-CONTROL&quot; CONTENT=&quot;NO-CACHE&quot;&gt;<br><br>Jay<br><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 23, 2008 3:14 PM, Gerd Kortemeyer &lt;<a href="mailto:korte@lite.msu.edu">korte@lite.msu.edu</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Please pull up the &quot;Page Source&quot; of the the page you are looking it.<br>It should be a frameset, loading the navigation into the top frame<br>and the external page into the bottom. Some browsers have a defunct<br>
cache refresh inside of framesets. On a Mac, I have to shift-reload<br>to get frames updated.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>On Jan 23, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Jay Sullivan wrote:<br><br>&gt; But then shouldn&#39;t the new page show up if I refresh the page in
<br>&gt; LONCAPA?<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Jay<br>&gt;<br>&gt; What LON-CAPA does with external resources (I assume stuff outside of<br>&gt; LON-CAPA, like <a href="http://www.msu.edu/" target="_blank">http://www.msu.edu/</a>) is simply create a frame with
<br>&gt; that URL - nothing is cached inside LON-CAPA. So I would assume that<br>&gt; it&#39;s the browser cache.<br><br></div></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________<br>LON-CAPA-users mailing list
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