Re: catching broken links on website and documentation

[Francisco Vila]

2008/5/7 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden>:
> Trevor Daniels writes:
>
>  > What expiry date does Apache on lilypond.org assign to these pages?
>
>  We do nothing special, so probably none?  But would that make a browser
>  automatically refetch?  Esp. with firefox 3 after startup I'm often
>  looking at an old lwn front page and need to refresh manually.

To avoid caching, we in Badajoz put

<meta http-equiv="expires" content="-1" />
<meta http-equiv= "pragma" content="no-cache" />

at the HTML headers. This way you point to an URL in the browser and
you are viewing an updated page for sure. I don't know how standard is
it, but it works.
-- 
Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
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