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I have a servlet ServletTest that generates an HTML page using class HTMLTest. It does a fine job of displaying the page in my browser, but when I change the code of HTMLTest, my browser still shows the old version. I've tried refreshing my browser (also using option and command keys) and I still see the old version of the page. HTMLTest outputs its page to a text file which gets updated fine, and I recompiled ServletTest (although it doesn't seem like I'd need to--it just calls the "create" method of HTMLTest) but I still see the outdated page.
I have a feeling it's a browser problem.... don't know how else to test the contents of the servlet.... Tried emptying my cache, didn't help. I imagine it's something simple, but I'm stumped for now. Here's my doGet servlet code, in case that's the problem somehow:
public void doGet (HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println(HTMLTest.createDogPage());
out.close();
}

Thanks in advance for any help!
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I have seen the following approach suggested to make sure the browser does not cache the page.
String tmp = request.getProtocol() ;
if (tmp.equals("HTTP/1.0")) {
response.setHeader("Pragma", "no-cache");
} else if (tmp.equals("HTTP/1.1")) {
response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache") ;
}
However, which servlet engine are you using? Some of them don't automatically reload a servlet class after the timestamp changes.
Bill


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have you cleared your browser history and internet temporary files?
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Bowser history?? I mean browser history?? Haven't tried that.
About the previous code, where does this go--in the servlet? Or does it go with the server somewhere....
[edit: oh never mind. It's pretty obvious it goes in the servlet.]
In the meantime, I will try restarting tomcat to refresh, as suggested elsewhere in these pages.
Thanks all!
[This message has been edited by eric moon (edited December 14, 2000).]
 
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I know this mean sounds stupid, but did you recompile the servlets.
 
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