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Q.)Do you cache website content? Why won't my CSS files update?
A.) Windows 2003 Server / IIS6 caches certain content (such as css files) from time to time. It does this dynamically based on a new heuristic. If you have uploaded a new CSS file or similair to your website and it refuses to update in your browser this will be due to the caching taking place. The cache will refresh after a short period of time.

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IIS 6.0 has advanced heuristics built in to determine the cacheable hot-set of an application or set of sites. Just because an item is cacheable, does not necessarily mean it makes sense to add that item to an in-memory cache, since there is a cost to managing the item and the memory it consumes. Therefore, IIS 6.0 uses a new heuristic to determine which items should be cached on the basis of the distribution of requests that a particular application receives. This means that the Web server makes better use of the resources available, while sustaining the performance on frequent requests, leading to scalability improvements.

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FAQ ID: 67

Created on: May 25, 2005

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