Web Pages Not Updating

[CMYK]

I have been writing some new pages for my site. Some are ASP, some HTML. I upload them to the server but the new pages don't show. I have even actually deleted some of the ASP pages from the server but they still display, even days later.

What's going on?

How can I fix it?

It's really cunting me off, as you can imagine.

[zhasper]

Many possiblities here:

* Your browser could be caching the old pages; try shift+refresh or ctrl+refresh, this should tell your browser to not use the cached version. you could also try flushing your browser's cache, but this is probably overkill

* Someone somewhere between you and your web server could be transparently proxying your connection; most probably your ISP trying to save a little on bandwidth. Again, shift+refresh or ctrl+refresh should make your browser send appropriate cache control directives to make sure the transparent proxy gets the new version - unless you're using IE, which is just braindead, bogus, mank, and crap, and won't do this, so you're munted.

* Perhaps your ISP is not transparently proxying you, but you've set a proxy server in your browser? If so, again, ctrl+refresh or shift+refresh should work - even IE will be sensible if it knows you're using a proxy. Alternatively, if your ISP has suggested a proxy server but you haven't explicitly told IE to use the cache anyway - but if you make sure IE knows about the proxy, it will at least try to get the cache to get the new version.

* Of course, it's also possible to set the proxy, whether it's transparent or not, to ignore cache-control directives, in which case you're again munted and the only advice i can give is to get a new ISP..

One last hint - try appending a ? to the end of the url - http://www.somesite.com/index.asp? - most proxies and browsers will interpret the ? as meaning that this is a dynamic page and they won't cache the result at all

[CMYK]

That little question mark did the trick.

Thanks a million.

[zhasper]

Yay :)

[Munger]

Something else to know, some software caches particular sets of '?' parameters. If you're having any more troubles that the ? doesn't fix, try adding ?<insert random number/text here> like 'http://www.zgeek.com/?23423'.