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Originally Posted by XFS03
I don't know how (or how often) the web pages on the proxy servers are updated, but I used to get "stale" pages sometimes when visiting ntl's own website.
I had to use Ctrl + F5 to get the latest pages.
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AFAIK this is down to the web page designer - I think there is something you can code into a page that should indicate how often it is updated.
For dynamic sites like this, I think it's the case that the proxies are effectively useless and serve only to slow performance down. Pages are updated all the time and the server is in the US ... page requests therefore go from the user to the proxy, which has then to go to the server and retrieve the page, before returning it to the user.