NTL Proxy advice

[abailey152]

Originally Posted by dr wadd

One of the big advantages of being single, no-one to complain that my living room does a fair impression of mission control at NASA.

[Sociable]

Originally Posted by dr wadd

I thought that would merely force IE to reload the site rather than relying on a locally cached copy.

I stand to be corrected but isn't there two levels to this?

F5 by itself forces a refresh (ie not relying on local copy in temp internet files) but I thought the addition of Ctrl + F5 actually forced a complete refresh from the originating site by changing the nature of the request from in effect "send me changes since last visit" to "Re-send everything" or something along those lines.

AFAIK the proxy should pass on that request (or rather its more accurate technical version) and ignore even its own cached version, or am I getting confused?

[willo]

My PC is in the livingroom, I've spent a few bob making it run quietly and it is the center of all technology in the house including broadcasting my mp3s via an FM transmiter, showing the TV, internet access, DVD player the whole 9 yards. My iother half is cool about it, even let me spend over a grand on a desk to put it on, so it looks good too!

[abailey152]

Originally Posted by Sociable

I stand to be corrected but isn't there two levels to this?

F5 by itself forces a refresh (ie not relying on local copy in temp internet files) but I thought the addition of Ctrl + F5 actually forced a complete refresh from the originating site by changing the nature of the request from in effect "send me changes since last visit" to "Re-send everything" or something along those lines.

AFAIK the proxy should pass on that request (or rather its more accurate technical version) and ignore even its own cached version, or am I getting confused?

Now that's more along the lines of what I thought (I thought it was SHIFT but with my memory, you are probably right ). Unfortunately, I don't know for sure, and more importantly, I don't know if some such commend would force NTL's proxies to be refreshed, resurrecting the "dead" access to sites. Running on another proxy works, but it does seem to add a delay to some sites, so it would be great if there was a way to force the correct proxy to load a site. Is there anbody with the definitive answer?

[abailey152]

Originally Posted by willo

My PC is in the livingroom, I've spent a few bob making it run quietly and it is the center of all technology in the house including broadcasting my mp3s via an FM transmiter, showing the TV, internet access, DVD player the whole 9 yards. My iother half is cool about it, even let me spend over a grand on a desk to put it on, so it looks good too!

Yeah, to be fair it isn't just my PC fans noise that would be a problem. The 3 platesful of spaghetti at the back wouldn't help......and I'm not the tidiest person when it comes to the PC. Discs, and bits of paper with notes on them all over the place.

No, I think I'm better tucked away in my little room, which can have the door closed when not in use.

Ctrl-F5 should always work - sadly some proxy servers ignore it (and some browsers are broken) - so there is no definative answer.

[abailey152]

Originally Posted by pem

Ctrl-F5 should always work - sadly some proxy servers ignore it (and some browsers are broken) - so there is no definative answer.

Well that's definitive!! Or at least it confirms my thoughts.

Thanks.