I've taken over a website that has an index.html page that redirects. This page gets cached. Obviously clearing the browser's cache entirely would solve the problem. Is there any way to go directly to mysite.com and be assured of getting the new page without completely clearing the cache?I'm looking for something similar to holding shift when reloading a page, only this time for the initial opening of a page.
Open a page that redirects without clearing cache
html;firefox;internet explorer 9
When a well behaved web browser encounters cached content, it generally still requests the head portion of the cached document so that it can ensure that the content hasn't changed since it was last cached. Just as long as the last-modified or content-length changes, then you shouldn't have a problem.Issues arise when your web server has explicitly told web browsers to cache the index page heavilly, or when there's proxy servers inbetween.I take it you've already changed the index.html page but some users are still redirecting?