Posted by R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah on 12/16/59 11:58

StevePBurgess@gmail.com wrote:
> I've just run the script in Firefox again and noticed something odd.
> There are two links, thus:
>
> MOVE UP - MOVE DOWN
>
> When I click on MOVE UP the database isn't updated but I get this in
> the address box when the script returns me to the main page:
>
> http://www.etc.com/credits.php?r=1158400161
>
> When I click MOVE DOWN the database isn't updated and I get this:
>
> http://www.etc.com/credits.php?r=1158400662
>
> if I click MOVE UP again I get
>
> http://www.etc.com/credits.php?r=1158400161
>
> which is the same as the first time I clicked it. The r= variable is
> the unix time stamp so either firefox is caching the page or my server
> is somehow going back in time! ;o)
>
> If I leave it for a while and try again, the number is updated to a new
> number (and sometimes the database is updated and the order on the
> credits page is changed).
<snip>

My guess:
1. You're paying more to your hosting provider and they have some
master-slave architecture for kinda data recovery.
2. Caching issue:
a. Your ISP is caching the pages
b. As your scripting is instructing to cache (so you better post the
link & phpinfo so that someone can dig the HTTP headers and provide
suggestion) or using .html extension (some buggy proxy implementation
will flag it as static page).

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