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Re: META tag - expires From Angus at Angus's Personal Website on 20 July '01 replying to Re: META tag - expires posted by Jim Hi Sarah, Your question has probably been answered by now, I found it when trying to find an answer to the same question myself! I think the answer is Yes, as given by the following paragraph:- 'Expires <meta http-equiv="expires" content="Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:21:57 GMT"> Sets date and time after which the document should be considered expired. Controls caching in HTTP/1.0. An illegal Expires value like 0 is interpreted as now. Setting Expires to 0 may thus be used to force a modification check (reload) at each visit. Robots may delete expired documents from a search engine or schedule a revisit. cache-control <meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache"> Sets the action of cache agents. Possible values are public - may be cached in public shared caches private - may only be cached in private cache no-cache - may not be cached no-store - may be cached but not archived Note: Browser action for theses headers is undefined. MSIE is known to cache the document even if this header is present!' This can be found on http://phh.virtualave.net/info/meta_http_equiv.html Hope this helps. Regards, Angus.

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>Hi Sarah, >Your question has probably been answered by now, I found it when trying to find an answer to the same question myself! >I think the answer is Yes, as given by the following paragraph:- > >'Expires ><meta http-equiv="expires" content="Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:21:57 GMT"> > >Sets date and time after which the document should be considered expired. >Controls caching in HTTP/1.0. An illegal Expires value like 0 is interpreted as now. Setting Expires to 0 may thus be used to force a modification check (reload) at each visit. Robots may delete expired documents from a search engine or schedule a revisit. > >cache-control ><meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache"> > >Sets the action of cache agents. Possible values are > >public - may be cached in public shared caches >private - may only be cached in private cache >no-cache - may not be cached >no-store - may be cached but not archived > >Note: Browser action for theses headers is undefined. >MSIE is known to cache the document even if this header is present!' > >This can be found on http://phh.virtualave.net/info/meta_http_equiv.html > >Hope this helps. >Regards, >Angus.