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:
- 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.
- 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.
- click refresh. This will repaint the page, checking the proxy for 'freshness'
of the web browser cached copy of each page component.
- 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.
- 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