Problems Viewing Updated Web Page

[savage3e]

Hi all-

 

I just got a hosting account set up here last week and everything has been great so far. However, just today I have encountered a small problem that I can't seem to wrap my head around and was hoping for some help.

 

I just updated my personal website (used mainly as a picture hosting site) with some new content. However, when I browse to the site using Mozilla (1.3.1) I cannot see any of the changes. (I have a "View Recent Updates" link and some manual navigation.) I can, however, manually enter the individual photo album URLs and get at the content. It seems I'm only having trouble viewing the "update.html" page (the Updates link target) and the "arndts.html" page (the Manual Navigation links page).

 

To throw in a pinch of oddness, if I browse to the site by using the non-DNS-dependant [iP Address]~[userName] address, everything works fine. I did move this site from another host, but I configured the old hosted site with an error page telling guests to come here (to test this very problem). That page works great, so it seems I am really coming to the properly hosted site, not the old one.

 

Now, if I browse to my site using Internet Explorer, everything works great. The two links pages are updated properly and I see no problems of any kind.

 

Any idea what's going on here?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

-Brad

[Dennis]

I browsed to your page using both Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 and MS Explorer and I can see the "update.html" page which opened up as a pop-up window but not the "arndts.html" (can't seem to find them, maybe I didn't look hard enuff) and it seems to be working fine.

 

Could it be the browser cache version that you are viewing, try clearing the cache. I had a problem, with MS Explorer with one of my page earlier too and had to refresh a few times before I could see the changes I had made to my page.

 

Dennis

[TCH-JimE]

Hi,

 

Since you can see it in one browser and not the other, the only difference is the cache. Make sure that its not a tag which is falling apart which is why morzilla cant see it, but otherwise, its the cache

 

Jim

[savage3e]

Seems I can now see the updated pages just fine in Mozilla.

 

Thanks Dennis. I did try to clear Mozilla's cache at the time and it didn't seem to help. I had figured that was the most likely cause of the problem but couldn't get it resolved at the time. However, just a few minutes after posting the "arndts.html" page (found by selecting "People" and "We Arndts") was displaying the updated version. This was followed a few minutes later by the "update.html" page displaying correctly.

 

Seems odd, eh? Guess as long as the changes come through in reasonable time I shouldn't complain.

 

Still, to properly sate my curiosity, does anybody know why a browser would take any longer than another to view changed html pages? Since IE was viewing them fine in real-time, it sure doesn't sound like a page-serving issue.

 

Thanks again Dennis.

 

-Brad

[Dennis]

Glad that its working properly now.

 

Lolz, its the other way round for me, Mozilla was working fine "real time" but not IE...guess it might be the setting cos my IE was set to check for a new copy of the page automatically....

 

Dennis

[savage3e]

Since you can see it in one browser and not the other, the only difference is the cache. Make sure that its not a tag which is falling apart which is why morzilla cant see it, but otherwise, its the cache

 

Looks like all fingers point to the cache. IE cleared the cache and received the page just fine, but Mozilla seemed reluctant for some reason, though it seemed to need to load everything else (graphics and such) again. Maybe there's some deep-seeded option that I need to find to make it behave a little better.

 

Thanks Jim. Looks like this'll give me something to do with my Monday afterall...