Maxnet Caching Proxy?

[buadhai]

It appears that MaxNet (TT&T) is using some sort of caching proxy server that isn't updated very often.

Web pages that I uploaded to my host a few hours ago still haven't made their way to the MaxNet cache.

Has anyone else experience this and, if so, is there same way to force flush the cache?

Oddly, I didn't have this problem when using ISSP, also through TT&T....

[monty]

Not sure about the cache. I don't seem to have the same problem you have when updating my webpages...

TT&T cooperates with Ji-net as supplier for the internet access. If you do a tracert to any website, you'll see that all traffic goes through ji-net's gateway.

[buadhai]

Here's a fragment of the HTML code which I downloaded (using curl) from the server to verify that the correct file is there. It shows the latest revision date is 12 July 2005:

<div class="c2">
<p class="c3">Last revised 12 July 2005.</p>
</div>
<hr />
<center><img src="graphics/oldman.jpg" alt="The Old Man"
width="533" height="400" align="middle" /></center>

Here's the URL: http://www.######/

When I look at that page it shows:

Last revised 2 May 2005.

I've emptied the browser cache, so I know that's not the problem. Gotta be MaxNet....

[monty]

Buadhai,

Hold down the shift key while quickly clicking the refresh button a few times.

This forces the proxy server to fetch the latest version of your page!

Click here to send me e-mail

Last revised 12 July 2005.

I got your latest version like that

Edited July 12, 2005 by monty

[buadhai]

Interesting. By the time I got your post, the cache had already been updated for the URL I posted.

But another site that I maintain:

http://homepage.mac.com/mgnewman/KenLat/

had not been updated and the Shift/Refresh combo didn't work for me.

(I tried several browsers and several key combinations.)

I'm mystified. Never seen anything like this before.

Edit: Finally got it to work. I'm on a Mac. The only browser I could get to force the cache to reload was IE. And, the key combination is: command/option/ctrl/shift/Refresh.

Amazing.

Edited July 12, 2005 by buadhai