Well, I think you've been trout slapped enough.

As you probably noticed, there are a lot of different Perl folks out here, not just those that use Perl for CGI scripts. I'm sorry you had a bit of a rude welcome, but you know how certain people get. There's a reason why a camel was chosen for the Perl mascot.

I don't pretend to be a web design (or Perl) guru, but isn't there a META tag that prevents caching? Let me check google really quickly... ah, yes...

Have you considered possibly experimenting with one or more of the following HTML META tags?

• <META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="Wed, 1 Jan 1980 00:00:42 GMT">
• <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" content="no-cache;>

Or other appropriate mechanisms to prevent caching? Now, I've never fiddled with these myself, but I've seen them mentioned enough times that I believe they may help.

Also, I note that this node shows how to disable caching in perl CGI scripts. A more recent thread dealt with a similar issue. (FWIW, both were found by using Super Search to locate nodes containing "cgi cache".)

I hope this helps....

--f

P.S. BTW, do you know of a a good site for Flash tutorials and discussion? They may have addiitional insights. You might also see if you have a good HTML expert handy.