Hi

I'm using a perl script via my shell console (SSH) to get contents of a file on a different server. the first time I run this script I get the right content of the file, but I change the content of the file and than try to run the code again I get the content as before - the first time. 

my $url='http://mysite.com/test.html';
my $proxy_url='http://myproxy.com';

my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$browser->agent('Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)');
$browser->timeout(10);
$browser->proxy(['http', 'ftp'], $proxy_url);

my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url)|| print($!);
my $response = $browser->request($request)|| print($!);

if ($response->is_success)
{
 my $content= $response->content;
 return $content;
}
else
{
 my $content= $response->status_line();
 return $content;
}

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Ignore the actual url's in $url and $proxy_url - they are fictinial for the porpose of this post. no matter how many times I change the content of "test.html" $content keeps giving me the same result it gives me the first time.

is this some kind of server cache ? proxy cache ? what ? where to start ?

In reply to unwanted cache when using LWP to get content of a page by gooyava

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