Web browser operational tips


Some tips on using your web browser with localProxy in the startup phase (and any other environment where connections are not reliable).

There are different ways to 'refresh' your web page.
In order from least time taken (least page components refreshed) to longest time (most complete page refresh) in Internet Explorer (Netscape has similar provisions), they are:
  1. right click the missing component and click 'show image', or 'refresh' This should retry just that page component. Mozilla seems not to have this ability, and will want to display the component in a new page - skip to the next step instead.
  2. click the 'Go' button (or just position the mouse cursor in the address field and click, then press Enter). This will not attempt to get new copies of anything which is already displayed (and is therefore in the web browser cache), but will attempt to fill in the ones which were not obtained before. 
  3. click refresh. This will repaint the page, checking the proxy for 'freshness' of the web browser cached copy of each page component.
  4. click ctrl-refresh (shift-reload in Mozilla). This should guarantee you a fresh copy from the web site, no matter whether your current copy is up to date, or not. Some proxies don't honor this, and just return you their current cached copy anyway. This happens for files in particular.
  5. use the back arrow to return to the page you came from and click the link again. This is the *only* option which will work after getting the Emirates 'access denied' page, because they send you a redirect to this page, and a refresh of any sort will simply refresh the same 'access denied' page :-)
 -wayne