"hard" reload or refresh - how to?

minck · Post by **minck** » August 8th, 2004, 10:27 am

I'm experimenting with a cache thingie on some dynamic webpages and am trying to figure out what headers it sends and when. Firefox's 'page info' is fabulous - giving you the last-modified and expires info. However, it's always showing up source as being 'disk cached', even when it's obviously getting a new page (might be because apache's on local host here).

Can anyone tell me how to do the 'hard' reload or refresh on firefox to be sure it's requesting a new page, and not just responding to the 'page not modified' headers?

Thanks a lot! Firefox is one of the few bits of software that makes me almost giddy. Can't imagine life without it.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » August 8th, 2004, 12:23 pm

Reload (override cache)
Ctrl+F5
Ctrl+Shift+R

Reload (override cache)
Shift+Reload button

http://texturizer.net/firefox/keyboard.html
http://texturizer.net/firefox/mouse.html

It should also be in your Firefox Help menu section: Help > Help Contents or F1

minck · Post by **minck** » August 9th, 2004, 6:57 am

thx - I kept on getting similar results with shift + reload, now I see that the server caching mech wasn't working properly so the two always appeared the same. Firefox 0.9.1 on Debian doesn't appear to have a help contents, probably a newer one will.