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[smallmovesal]

woohoo! thanks

 

[TheProject]

Hey Phem, I've got what may be a silly question, but I'm going to ask anyway:

When you refresh a web page, if there's new data, the refresh retrieves it for you. Doesn't that automatically update the cache with the new data? What does the Control add?

 

[Phemomena]

i believe that depending on your isp/browser/parent's shoe colour etc, the browser often just re-paints the screen, or brings down information that is new from the last time the page was loaded... it doesn't always force the entire page from the server, much, if not all info still comes from the cache... CTRL guarentees that the page is refreshed from the server....

i think that's what it is at least... i'm not an OS/IT person, maybe someone else can chime in... but that's my understanding of it...

 

[TheProject]

Okay, I forcefully picked the brain of one of my fellow IT brethren, and here's what I found out: nothing.

However, I did a little digging on my own, and here's the official answer on the forced refresh, straight from Bill's evil minions:

Refresh the current Web page, even if the time stamp for the Web version and your locally stored version are the same. CTRL+F5

So basically, it replaces your cached files regardless of when the cached files were written.

Now I've satisfied my own curiosity, and probably bored the hell out of everyone else.

 

[Phemomena]

hehe all i know is that it works!