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tek

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Aug 23, 2003
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Does anyone know how to do a 'Force refresh' in safari?

The same way shift+reload does in Mozilla-based products and control+refresh does in Internet Explorer.

My problem is that i'm behind a forced ISP proxy server, which has a lovely habit of caching my stylesheets for days on end. I can get past the cache of the actual .html page by tagging something like ?sdfsdf onto the end of the URL, but for things included in the html it's a totally different matter.

When I used to use windows, i could just control+refresh to do something funky to get it to poke the proxy server and make it grab fresh copies of the documents, but I have had no such luck with Safari!

Anyone?
 

BWhaler

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Jan 8, 2003
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Hold down the option key while clicking on the refresh icon in the toolbar.
 

DJY

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Dec 20, 2003
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Canberra AUST
Isn't it the Apple key (well that little curly symbol on the apple key) and R to force a reload of a page?
 

DJY

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Dec 20, 2003
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Canberra AUST
Being a new switcher, I am looking all over the place to ways to do things!

And coming from a WinDoze / Pee Cee background - I am a big fan of fast and efficient short cut keys... and normally things are so hard to do!
 

wrldwzrd89

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Jun 6, 2003
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tek said:
Does anyone know how to do a 'Force refresh' in safari?

The same way shift+reload does in Mozilla-based products and control+refresh does in Internet Explorer.

My problem is that i'm behind a forced ISP proxy server, which has a lovely habit of caching my stylesheets for days on end. I can get past the cache of the actual .html page by tagging something like ?sdfsdf onto the end of the URL, but for things included in the html it's a totally different matter.

When I used to use windows, i could just control+refresh to do something funky to get it to poke the proxy server and make it grab fresh copies of the documents, but I have had no such luck with Safari!

Anyone?
In my experience, simply clicking refresh fetches a new copy of the page (regardless of browser) when I'm behind one of those caching proxy servers. After the page loads, if I know it's outdated, I just press the refresh button, and it fetches the latest page, complete with current JavaScript/stylesheets. I suspect that the problem may be with Safari itself, as I've heard on these forums about issues where Safari wouldn't let go of its cache of a particular stylesheet for several weeks, just like you describe.
 
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