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?

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.

In reply to Re: Should I be looking at cookies? by footpad
in thread Should I be looking at cookies? by jerrygarciuh

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