[Lispweb] Purging cached pages with Araneida

[R. Mattes]

On Sat, 13 May 2006 01:12:41 +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:

> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:08:06PM -0700, Richard Newman wrote:
> : It might well be Firefox. If it encounters a form field with the same  
> : name, it will restore field values, even if the page has been  
> : regenerated in the meantime. If you're using forms to store failure  
> : values, Firefox will break your app.
> 
> It's not just forms.  Any html page.  It will load one that should be
> protected, or show a login failure page when it should succeed, if that's what
> was shown before for a given link.
>

I somehow fail to see the connection to Lisp here. Esp. if you use Firefox
there are some great debugging tools available. Install the 'Header
Monitor' extension and watch the expiration header in your status bar
while browsing. Or install the 'Live HTTP Headers' extension and inspect
the header in the side bar (my favorite tool). Without any extensions a
simple right-click on the page should offer you 'View page info' with a
display of the headers sent.
If you use Firefox 1.5 or later there's 'Cache View' - if your browser is
older you can just enter 'about:cache?device=memory' or
'about:cache?device=disk' to view the cache entries.

 HTH Ralf Mattes


> Jonathon McKitrick