Predictable Caching: Today's oxymoron
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I have a custom block that's part of a package, which has its own view.css file.
The problem: when I deploy a new version of view.css to my host (iPage), the page still displays using the prior version.
I had this last week, and after poking & prodding it, it started working - I suspect it wasn't something I did, but who knows.
So today, I'm back with this same problem. Here's what I've tried:
- iPage has a cache control - I've turned off all caching.
- C5 has cache control - i've turned off all caching, and cleared the cache.
- Using Firefox - I've cleared it's cache.
And no matter what, reload the page, and it's still got the old version of the CSS.
On a five-point (5-high) scale, my knowledge/experience with C5 is maybe 2, css <1, though I've been a software developer for ages so I've got the analytical chops - but i've hit a wall with this caching business.
Also - what makes this even more annoying, is that when I run my local site (WAMP), everything reloads fine. Switch to another tab to the iPage-hosted page, and zero-zip-nada.
All suggestions gratefully accepted!!!
I have a custom block that's part of a package, which has its own view.css file.
The problem: when I deploy a new version of view.css to my host (iPage), the page still displays using the prior version.
I had this last week, and after poking & prodding it, it started working - I suspect it wasn't something I did, but who knows.
So today, I'm back with this same problem. Here's what I've tried:
- iPage has a cache control - I've turned off all caching.
- C5 has cache control - i've turned off all caching, and cleared the cache.
- Using Firefox - I've cleared it's cache.
And no matter what, reload the page, and it's still got the old version of the CSS.
On a five-point (5-high) scale, my knowledge/experience with C5 is maybe 2, css <1, though I've been a software developer for ages so I've got the analytical chops - but i've hit a wall with this caching business.
Also - what makes this even more annoying, is that when I run my local site (WAMP), everything reloads fine. Switch to another tab to the iPage-hosted page, and zero-zip-nada.
All suggestions gratefully accepted!!!
In case of server file caching you can try to add an hash to the css file like ?refresh=timestamp