No Cache & Safari

Hi Michel,

What were the tags? 🙂

Use &lt ; for < and &gt<b>; for >

I'm having the exact opposite problem - I can't get Safari to cache anything from my site despite sending proper expires, last modified & cache control headers (not meta tags - http headers). Firefox, Camino and IE cache them. Safari doesn't. Neither does OmniWeb which uses the same rendering code as Safari.

Hi Michel,

I'm having exactly the same problem... Anything I update on my website takes at least a day to show up in Safari. Internet Explorer shows it okay. And the PC in my house on the same network shows the new version okay, so I know it's not a caching problem with the ISP.

Even if I clear the cache it still doesn't want to know. Does anyone have any ideas?

:-Joe

I'm having the same problem too - over one month later and still apparently no fix for this!
I have reported the bug to Apple.
Anyone know a workaround? Clearing cache - even using Onyx - doesn't seem to make any difference.....and it is very annying when you are updating your website and trying to check it.

I've had everybody's problems here. Caching when I don't want it and not caching when I do. Bah!

My present issue is that Safari refuses to cache JavaWebStart apps. I was sold on the whole technology on the basis of being able to cache an app indefinitely.
Mozilla and Firefox appear to work as desired (not downloading another copy of the app every time you start it); Safari and IE do not. They leave a mess of copies all over the desktop, each with an incremented number attached to its name. Does anyone know how to get Safari & IE to play nice?


iMac PowerPC G3 Mac OS X (10.4.4) Safari version 2.0.3 IE version 5.2

Have you tried using Safari Enhancer. One of its options is to deactivate Safari's cache.

If it works for you, please make a donation to the developer. I find SE a very useful application.

Note too the developer's message regarding the deactivate cache feature:

"As of Enhancer 3.0, the "empty cache..." option in Safari is no longer greyed out when the cache is deactivated. I did this in order to allow people to deactivate the cache on a per-user basis (changing the menu in Safari affects the whole system). The cache is still disabled, which you can check by looking for items in the /Users/currentuser/Library/Caches/Safari/ directory. "

Hi Michel,

If I understand correctly, you don't like that the Caches in Safari will be stored??

Open Home/Library/Safari - now select the ***-tense of the Safari to the trash. Now get info by ⌘-i an select "only read" this prevents that Safari cashed the web pages.

* Good luck ...

Dimaxum

I have the same problem - you would expect deleting the cache to force Safari to go and get the new page. Actually, I would expect REFRESH to force Safari to go and get the new page.

You can force Safari to do this by emptying the cache and then quitting safari and restarting.

Clunky way to fix this though...