force browser to reload html

• From: Bi, Xiaolian <Xiaolian_Bi@tri.sbc.com>
• Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 11:51:10 -0400 (EDT)
• To: "'www-jigsaw@w3.org'" <www-jigsaw@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <6C5FB3C08FCBD1118EE600805FEA9CC201E1A4A2@trimail.tri.sbc.com>

I have a servlet that write out an html file (homepage.html) with some
runtime dynamic information. Then the serlvet output a page that has 2
frames. One of the frame's src is the newly generated homepage.html

Apparently the browser does not reload the homepage.html even through the
content of this file got changed unless I hit the browser's (Netscape)
reload button. I looked up the status codes on HttpServletResponse.
SC_RESET_CONTENT says it means "the request succeeded and the browser should
reset (reload) the current document view". It sounds like what I need. So I
tried it, but it doesn't work as I want it (basically I want the
homepage.html reloaded to reflect the changes).

Is there a way from servlet to force the browser to reload an html from the
web server instead of just displaying its cached version?

Thanks.

Xiaolian

Received on Thursday, 27 May 1999 18:48:31 UTC