.asp pages and cache

Kevin A Roust roustk at alumni.caltech.edu
Mon Jun 10 14:02:02 PDT 2002


I've been finding that OW 4.1b7 caches some pages for longer that it 
"should".  In particular, when dealing with a site with lots of *.asp 
pages (which, in this case at least, are being generated dynamically on 
the server side), OW is keeping and displaying cached copies even after 
the page on the server changes.  For now, I can get around this by doing 
a reload, but a better fix would be nice...

I've mainly been running into this on pages at http://acts.wizard.com.hk/ 
but unfortunately I haven't found any publically-available examples yet.  
As a registered user, I see this through things like the following:
  Log in
  Click on "Titan" to get the list of all games
  Click on the name of the first game
    Note the name top-center on the page
  Go Back to the list of games (using toolbar Back)
  Click on the name of the second game
    Note the name top-center on the page (same as before)
  Click the reload button in the toolbar
    Note that the top-center name has changed


Another minor nit is that I would like to be able to adjust the cmd-Up 
and cmd-Down behavior to act like Page Up/Down, rather than 
Next/Previous Anchor.  I use an iBook, which doesn't have dedicated 
Page Up/Down keys and the relevant meta key is on the opposite side of 
the keyboard from the arrow keys.  However, there is a handy-dandy apple 
key close to the arrow keys.

If cmd-Up could be set to act like Page Up (as in, say, Netscape 4.7) I 
would be able to read long pages with only one hand, not the two (or 
mouse) that is required now.

If changing the behavior of cmd-Up and cmd-Down is difficult (or not 
recommended), some other one-handed chord would be reasonable -- I've 
grown used to Acrobat's enter/shift-enter or return/shift-return combos 
for page down/up.

Thanks,
Kevin
roustk at alumni.caltech.edu




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