Re: How to flush cache for Feed Validation Service

Hi Mark,

I'm using Bluehost hosting, so I don't know if or how they've configured a CDN.

I was thinking that the validator was doing the caching. My new edits show up immediately in the xml file fetched by a browser, but the source listed in the validator report is old.

Thanks.

-Dave

On 11/6/2024 02:30, Mark Rogers wrote:
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> Hi Dave
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> Are you using CloudFlare or a similar CDN? They usually cache everything including feeds.
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> If you’re using a CloudFlare free plan the minimum TTL is 2 hours (so updates take up to 2 hours to become visible to the rest of the internet). If you’ve changed the Edge Cache TTL to a higher value like 30 days it can take much longer…
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> https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/how-to/edge-browser-cache-ttl/
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> Best Regards
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> Mark
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> *From: *Dave Arnold <davearnold55@gmail.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, 6 November 2024 at 08:50
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> *Subject: *How to flush cache for Feed Validation Service
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> Lately I've noticed that after I get an error from the Feed Validation Service (Validate by URI), and after correcting the file, rerunning the check reports the same error on the old version. Apparently it is caching the feed file. Is there a way to flush the cache and validate a new version?
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> Thanks.
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> -Dave
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