272822 - Mozilla does not refresh web pages on this and other sites, that have been changed. Built with FrontPage.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[John Chase]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I am the webmaster for about a dozen churches, who web pages change monthly. 
Firefox did not load the changed pages but used the pages from the previous
month.   I tried reloading, but it refuses to change.  The pages change in both
the I.E. 6.0
and Netscape 7.2.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go the above URL. 
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Same

Expected Results:  
Put up the newly loaded pages.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Try Shift+Reload. If that fails, try clearing your cache then loading the page.

Comment 2

[Ravenous Bugblatter Beast]

This is not a bug in firefox. The response headers from your server do not send
an explicit expiry header and therefore it is up to the browser to determine how
long to cache them and firefox seems to pick longer than 1 month as its default.
Your headers are:

Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:46:08 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.32 (Unix) mod_jk/1.2.1 PHP/4.3.7 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510
mod_ssl/2.8.21 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
Last-Modified: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 21:31:56 GMT
Etag: "7941c2-28a-3f35684c"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 650
Content-Type: text/html

If your content expires monthly, you need to set an expiries header in your
apache configuration - see the manual on www.apache.org or the HTTP
specification on www.w3.org for details on how to achieve this or contact your
service provider.

You can use the web developer extension to firefox to aid viewing your headers
to test your changes.