209627 - No straightforward way to reload non-HTML content

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 126530

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Scott Gifford]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030610
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030610

When I'm looking at an HTML Web page, if I think it's changed I can hit reload
or shift-reload to make sure I have the newest version.  When that page contains
a link to non-HTML content, though, there's (apparently) no way to reload or
force-reload that content without clearing the entire cache.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a file which uses an external viewer (in my case, a PDF file) and put
it on your Web server.
2. Create a Web page with a link to that file
3. View the Web page 
4. Click on the file and view it.
5. Modify the file and replace it on the Web server
6. Try to get the new file without clearing the entire cache.
Actual Results:  
I couldn't.


Expected Results:  
Providing a mechanism to do this.

Comment 1

[Scott Gifford]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126530 ***