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[cotc2001]

Hi there does anyone know how to do this, just got some advice on my site about changing page headers but not sure how to do this (it might even be a server config)

If I were you I'd look at changing the Expires: portion of your page header response. At the moment it read 'Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT'.
If you want a browser to retreive a new copy everytime visited you should set it to '-1' rather than a backward dated timestamp.

[hooter]

Hi cotc,

Yes that would be some sort of default server config behavior as the "Expires" meta information isn't fed by xcart. You can probably override that output by editing your /skin1/meta.tpl and putting in your own "Expire" meta information tags.

[cotc2001]

Hmm just checked with our host and they said it wasnt the server it was the code (doesn't surprise me that they said that)

I entered the expire information into the meta.tpl but it didn't have any effect at all

[hooter]

Hi cotc,

Just visited your site and in viewing the source am in fact seeing the new "Expire" meta tag:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" content="-1">

This is what you intended right

Make sure you refresh browser or force it to reload not from cache by doing CTRL F5

[cotc2001]

Not its definatley a server problem, although the code is in there the server is orverriding it. i.e if you goto
http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp

and enter http://www.justhom.com and click on check server headers and then have a look at the "expires:" it still show the back date as if the meta was not in there.

im talking to my host about fixing it (their first reaction was that its the x-cart code)

[cotc2001]

Ok sorted.
All that needed doing is that on .php pages like home.php , product.php etc.

after

require "./auth.php";

I added

header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: -1");

seems to have done the trick now