Hi there!
We have a webstore that I created -- all the scripts are written in perl. It's basically a modified version of checkout.pl.

Every time a user comes to the site they're automatically assigned a 'shopping cart' id. What is happening now is that if a user clicks on a link and Internet explorer sometimes uses a 'cached' page instead of executing the perl script again. Because of this a user may add an item to their shopping cart, then click around the site, then add another item to their shopping cart, and because it is an 'old' page, the first item that they added isn't there because the underlying html is working with two different shopping cart ids.

How can ask you force a link to 'refresh' and not use the cache? Is this maybe a javascript question? I'm a perl person so thought I'd come here for some suggestions.

Thank you!!

In reply to How to force perl script to be refreshed by Anonymous Monk

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