Auto-clearing the cache (WAS Stupid users)

["Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com>]

LOL. Great story. Now, two serious questions:

1. If you upload a new version of an HTML Help file after users have already
begun to use a Web-based application, will they also have to manually clear
their IE or Netscape caches?

2. If the answer to #1 is "yes," is there a way to script this function into
the application itself? The idea is that the app would automatically clear
specified files from the user's browser cache(s) every time it is launched,
so that they could be replaced by the latest version.

Dan Goldstein

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel_Hall -at- trendmicro -dot- com
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 3:57 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Stupid users (was the "top this" thread)

<snip>
Lead developer to QA engineer: "Have you cleared your browser cache?" 
QA engineer (very quietly, with a look of extreme chagrin): "No." 
Me (grinning): "Do I need to doc this?"
<snip>

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