Can't see recent posts

[SinisterDexter]

Help. I'm making posts, which seem to show up as the "last post" on the main menu, but when I go in and look at the thread, my post doesn't appear. It is there after I press the Submit button, but as soon as I navigate away from the page it is gone again...

Any ideas?

[SinisterDexter]

This doesn't seem to be isolated to this forum, but the other forum that it was occurring on seems to have fixed itself. I'm still having issues here though. Protium, help, I need you!

[SinisterDexter]

Explorer.

[GenericBox]

Yep was happenning to me too. Just refresh should fix your problems.

[SinisterDexter]

Hmm, OK, that works. Thanks guys. Sorry for being such a n00b.

[davo]

your also getting this on other forums? Out of interest, what version of IE are you running?

I am thinking maybe the new IE8 is involved here, could be wrong ..

[KeithW]

Originally Posted by Protium

I think it is a caching error. We have caching turned off at the moment while this issue is resolved. Your posts are being posted but your browser is relying on a previous version to display. Control & F5 will help refresh the page with the latest content.

What browser are you using SinDex?

I have to hit f5 on every screen I go to on this forum now. Cleaned out my cache, deleted all cookies and objects. someone at the operational end of the forum has done something that needs to be put right.

[youngmoigle]

Originally Posted by KeithW

I have to hit f5 on every screen I go to on this forum now. Cleaned out my cache, deleted all cookies and objects. someone at the operational end of the forum has done something that needs to be put right.

What he said...


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[davo]

Originally Posted by KeithW

I have to hit f5 on every screen I go to on this forum now. Cleaned out my cache, deleted all cookies and objects. someone at the operational end of the forum has done something that needs to be put right.

Every page in the forum is returning no-cache headers.

I cannot think of anything else that can be done above that. It explicitly tells browsers not to cache the pages. I am still trying to find out why it appears that others are having issues not only on this site, but others, around the same time, it may be related and just bad timing, tho that's a stretch!

I have run 'Live HTTP Headers' and you can too, a plugin for Firefox, and you will see on page requests the headers sent back from the server :

Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-cache=Set-Cookie, proxy-revalidate

It even goes so far as to explicitly tell proxy/cache servers to revalidate the page.

The only option I can think of, is caching proxies or the like, ignoring the HTTP headers. That would mean something in the path between the server and you. Your ISP may run a transparent proxy that is agressively caching pages even tho they are explicitly set to not cache, or your browser is at fault. The issue however MUST be one or the other. I would lean to say your browser is doing it, above anything in between. Why? I do not know, it should not be.

I would love someone on firefox having the issue, is there anyone? Is their anyone that is, that could possibly install the live http headers plugin, run it, and visit one of the posts?

[davo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubleshooting_Wikipedia

"
Cache problems with Internet Explorer

A problem commonly reported by Microsoft Internet Explorer users relates to Wikipedia content that seems to be out-of-date. The problem usually manifests as disappearing page edits or days-old current events. This problem is almost always caused by browser caching. Almost all Web browsers temporarily store a copy of viewed Web pages on the user's computer, and almost all browsers are configured by default to display the cached copy if the user revisits the same page and it can be determined that the page has not been updated since his last visit. Usually, this process works as expected; however, some versions of Internet Explorer fail to always correctly re-download a page when it has become outdated (which may be a software bug).
(The Internet Explorer problem is not unique to Wikipedia; if you incorrectly see cached data here, you are likely seeing out-of-date pages on other sites too.)
There are three simple workarounds you should try if you encounter this problem.

1. Click the Refresh button in the toolbar or activate the Refresh keyboard shortcut (on Microsoft Windows computers, either F5 or Ctrl-R).
2. If that doesn't work, try Ctrl-F5 (i.e. hold down the Control key and then press F5); this shortcut is documented as always refreshing the page from the Internet, regardless of what is in the cache.
3. If neither method of refreshing works, you can manually delete all files in your cache. To do this, select "Internet Options" from the Internet Explorer "Tools" menu and then click the "Delete Files..." button. (Note that this last process may take some time if the cache has not been recently cleared.)

Finally, you might simply consider trying a different Web browser. Firefox, Netscape Navigator, and Opera are three popular alternatives available for a variety of operating systems.
Internet Explorer has been singled out in this troubleshooting section because the majority of cache-related problems are reported by Internet Explorer users, but similar issues could be found in other browsers (Netscape 7.2 had this problem). For more information about Wikipedia page caching and caching in general, see Wikipedia:Clear your cache."