Hi,

A couple of days back I uploaded a new version of Math-Float.ppd. (It's only 4kb, so feel free to download it and tell me if you get the same version of that file as I do - detailed below.)

I've verified that the upload was successful - if I download it via scp I get the "new" version of the file back, as expected.
But if I download it in a browser (including IE on Windows, FF on Ubuntu, and IceWeasel on Debian, or if I download it with LWP::Simple, or if I download it using wget, then I get the "old" version of that file.
The 2 files differ only in that the contents of the "old" file match the string 07 and don't match the string 08 - and vice versa for the "new" version of the file.

Questions:

1) If you perform a http download, which version of Math-Float128.ppd do you get ? ... the "old" version that matches 07 (as I do) ? ... or the "new" version that matches 08 (as should happen) ?

2) Why am I seeing the behaviour that I do ?

I've deleted histories and emptied the browser caches on both IE and FF.
And, on the Windows 7 box, I've cleared the DNS cache (ipconfig /flushdns). What's the corresponding command for Linux ?
Yet I still get the "old" superceded version for each of the above-mentioned http download methods.

Where can this cache be held ? (The company that hosts the website says it can't possibly be their fault - and when they use wget they get the "new" version of the file.)
Could it be something that my ISP is doing ?
What else can I do to try and address this annoyance ?

Thanks for any help (but also feel free to ignore).

Cheers,
Rob

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