Re: [misterhouse-users] TV Today on IA5 web version

[Rick D. <ri...@de...>]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 21:23 -0700, Sean Walker wrote:
> Tom Vanderpool wrote:

> One of the issues is that MH has it's own web server that instructs the=20
> browser how long to keep the files in cache. The files that the TV code=20
> use are cached files, not considered dynamic by the server. This sends=20
> out a future expiration date and causes the browsers to not attempt to=20
> reload them for some time. This is quite a mystical thing as it is=20
> difficult to find out why a file is not being reloaded unless you know=20
> both the browser and the server. Kind of a pain in the butt, but I deal=20
> with this stuff all the time. :)
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Some time ago, I had similar problems (I think that it was the daily
comics) and there was a thread about that. I did some experimentation,
and helped Bruce put code in which handled caching differently by
putting proper Last-Modified headers in the HTTP responses and properly
handling the If-Modified-Since header in the HTTP requests.  This was
back in late March, so it SHOULD be in versions since around then.