Caching of cgi urls

Patrick Meade pmeade at axysdev.nwest.attws.com
Mon Nov 23 10:35:43 PST 1998


Hello all,
I'm developing some intranet pages that will be viewed with both Netscape  
(on pc's) and OmniWeb on NextStep. For the most part I have everything  
working correctly, but I have found some situations where OmniWeb, upon  
accessing a url for a cgi script, displays a page of outdated data. This does  
not occur when I access the page via Netscape. I have also found that  
selected reload on the document does not help. The page seems to hang around  
for quite a while before I am able to get new data displayed on it.

It occured to me that it could be the web server which is caching the page,  
rather than Omniweb; but if this is the case there most be some way for omni  
web to request a new version of the document in the way Netscape does.  
Anyway, I figure this should be a common problem with cgi, so I was wondering  
if anyone else had has this problem, and/or found a way around it.

Thanks,

Rick Meade



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