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Old 06-28-2003, 10:00 PM   #1
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a really special problem

hi, everybody

i have a really special problem. i surf the internet everyday and i mostly visit the same websites.
About 14 days ago it started. one of my favorite newssite didn't update anymore even they update every 30 minutes. I got for about one week the same Homepage! only, if i opened a column, there were the updated contents. i checked it on another computer and there it worked. after one week it started to get normal. but now i have the same problem again and even worse, two more websites have the same problem.
i tried antivirus, ad-aware, spybot etc.. i really have no idea what's the problem?
I have a pt4, os : win xp pro, ie 6.0 ( i tried it with opera and got the same result--- nytimes from last thursday )

many thanks for your help

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Old 06-29-2003, 03:47 AM   #2
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Sounds like an ISP issue, they could be using caching proxy servers.
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Old 06-30-2003, 12:21 AM   #3
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Did you try Tool -> Internet Options -> Settings -> Every visit to the page, on Internet Explorer.
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Old 06-30-2003, 12:53 AM   #4
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I was thinking of that, but if Opera does it too, I think it's an upstream issue.
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Old 06-30-2003, 07:56 AM   #5
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do you think, it might be a problem of the isp?
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Old 06-30-2003, 08:03 PM   #6
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hi,

i talked to my isp. they told me, that it isn't a problem of the isp. they said to press Ctrl+F5 and it worked. but now i always have to do this if i want an update from the webpage.

What caused this problem? do you have any idea?

thanks a lot for your help.

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Old 07-01-2003, 04:55 AM   #7
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Your ISP is caching the web pages and do not want to admit it. This is why they are telling you to press CTRL-F5, this forces a full refresh when the page is cached by the ISP.
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Did you try what bonzai said? There should be a way to force refresh automatically through your settings. Just like bonzai said, go to Internet Options >> Settings (under temporary internet files) >> (Check for newer versions of stored pages:) check "every visit to the page".

I don't believe that an ISP would have control over this, if so - please explain to me how they could (out of curiosity).
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Old 07-02-2003, 07:36 AM   #9
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hi.

after surfing the web i always clean up all (cookies, temp. internet files, history etc.) .
blue krystal, the isp only told me to refresh with Ctrl+F5. they couldn't tell why this happen.they had no idea!?

i hope someone can solve this problem.
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Old 07-14-2003, 10:57 PM   #10
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Cool

here is an example of how AOL members make web requests through a set of caching proxy servers.
cheers, ~pawprint~
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