Hi,
I am building a website for a friend.
Each step along the way, as I add to the site or make changes, I re-publish the site to my server.
I am able to view these changes in Internet Explorer no problem.
My friend, however is still only able to view the 'old' versions of the web pages.
I asked my friend to copy/paste the source code and sure enough, it's the old page - which doesn't even exist on my server.
Now, I've gone through all of the usual tricks of telling my friend to clear his cache, delete TIFs, delete cookies - all of that stuff, but the browser still shows the old page.
I also added these lines of code to the header:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1">
But that hasn't worked (it doesn't show in the source code text file that my friend sent) - and I guess it won't work untill the browser accesses the new version of the page!! A catch 22 situation.
Now the twist to this tale is that my friend asked another friend to go to the web page. This person had never previously visited the website but was only able to view the old pages - pages that effectively no longer exist on my server and have never been in their cache!!
I can't understand this. At first it looked to me as if my server might be caching the old pages (does this happen?), but then how is it that I am able to view the new pages?
This is a complete mystery to me - please help!!
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