Posted by Larry Lindstrom on 09/05/05 10:46

Hi Folks:

There are 20800 threads with "Refresh" and
"Reload" in Google's archives for groups with
"html" in their title. I'm sorry if this has
been done to death, but I didn't see it.

It's been a few years since I wrote Javascript
and I want to refresh my HTML skills. So I build
the current Apache on my Solaris PC. Then, from a
Win2K PC, telnet into the Solaris system for a vi
session to edit some HTML on the website, fire up
Firefox 1.0.6 and work my way through W3Schools'
HTML tutorial.

The lessons run smoothly, I add examples from
each tutorial to my home page, hit Firefox's
"Reload current page" icon, and see the results
of my changes.

When I get to the tutorial on frames I mis-
spell the name of one of the files in the
<frame src="second frame.html">, I put a blank
instead of an underscore in the file name for
the middle of 3 columns.

Firefox complains, as I would expect, with
an error message in the center column. "The
requested URL /second frame.html was not found
on this server." I correct the problem, but I
get the same error message. Reload, refresh,
same error.

I try a bunch of different things, but I'm
getting the same error, over a filename that
no longer exists in the HTML.

The text in the "View-source" window shows
the corrected source.

I fire up a second Firefox browser window,
aim it at my Solaris PC, and the columns
display properly.

I've seen many posts in the Google archives
asking how a web page author can force a page
to be refreshed, but this is a question of
how a person browsing the site can force a
page to be refreshed.

I'm using the tools a non-technical user
will have to browse my page. Why can't I
force a refresh to see the current HTML?

Thanks
Larry

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