I have a web page that always needs to stay current. I do not want the browser to cache it. To that end, this meta tag is embedded with the page:
<meta name="Expires" content="Tue, 01 Jun 1999 19:58:02 GMT">
However, some browsers seem to ignore it. Chrome is particularly bad at it, though other browsers tend to do the same thing.
When I pick the page from the bookmarks bar, most of the time, it doesn't even hit the server, just loads it from cache. If I then press F5, it does go to the server and fetch a new copy.
Am I missing something simple? I thought the expires meta tag is the way it's done.
This is happening on an IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000.
Bottom line: looks like meta tags inside the HTML code pretty much do nothing. However, setting the expires tags within the HTTP does the trick nicely.