Can I make a file always load from server?

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In my website I have changed css of a page and these changes are not reflecting instantly when I open that page in browser. It showing old css styles because browser has a saved copy of my css file and it does not reflecting the new changes.

The new changes are loading in the page when I load the page by pressing (CTRL+F5) then the changes I have done are reflected in the page. So can I make css file which always loaded from server and the changes done that page can reflect immediately on the page.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 08 '16 at 08:11

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Try adding this to your head tag

<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0">

answered Nov 08 '16 at 08:11

Tater Pickens

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Expires is deprecated, HTTP1.1 Cache-Control is supported by effectively all browsers, and takes precedence over expires. – haboutnnah Nov 08 '16 at 08:32
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Ah. Good to know. Thanks – Tater Pickens Nov 08 '16 at 08:57

haboutnnah · Answer 2 · 2016-11-08T08:17:51.580

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Setting the http header for Cache Control

If you don't have access to the low level http headers, you can use a http equiv tag. Example:

<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache, must-revalidate">

Source: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/optimizing-content-efficiency/http-caching#cache-control

edited Nov 08 '16 at 08:17

answered Nov 08 '16 at 08:12

haboutnnah

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Thanks @ManmeetGill – Sridhar K Nov 08 '16 at 09:27

Can I make a file always load from server?

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