Posted by Jose on 01/24/06 21:49

> I have someone asking me for the html code to force a browser to
> fetch a page from the server instead of using a cached version. Apart
> from wanting to find the code out, I have a vague recollection that
> it's not advised, but can't be sure.

It was probably started by me... I wanted to ensure that an excel file
was fetched fresh from the server. Since an excel file is not an HTML
file, there's no place to put HTML headers (without access to the
server, which does it's own thing).

You can't =force= a browser to do anything - you can just suggest. In
the case of an excel file, you can't even suggest.

Jose
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