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Comment - Re: Coding a 'What's new' agent for Domino

Comment by nw on 04 Dec 2002 ():

Cool stuff -- esp. with the double fix for IE sticky cache problem. I have an agent that outputs tab-delimited Excel data from Domino. It starts with:

Print "Content-type:application/vnd.ms-excel;
Pragma: no-cache;
Cache-Control: no-cache;
expires:-1"

I reference the agent with the url: server/db/agent and/or server/db/agent?openAgent&a=a.. This works perfectly in Mozilla when I've tested it. Unfortunately it doesn't fix the sticky cache of IE -- and even changing the params after the & doesn't fix the problem on subsequent calls. I have to "delete temporary internet files" from the IE menu to allow a refresh when a change is made to the agent code or the data -- for the excel document to change at all. any ideas how I can stop IE's caching in this instance (because I can't use html and meta tags -- as you did!!)

Thanks! Good stuff,
nw

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