Using Ctrl+F5 in IE 7

October 10th, 2007 - 9:55AM

Typing Ctrl+F5 in Internet Explorer is a handy way to force the reload of a page and all its component parts (e.g. images, css , javascript etc). It has the same effect as visiting a page with an empty browser cache. If you use HttpWatch with Ctrl+F5 in IE 6, you can see that every request returns an HTTP 200 OK response: This indicates that the complete content of each HTTP item was returned. However, in IE7 you may see a different response after typing Ctrl+F5: Only the HTML of the page is returned with a 200 OK response; the other … Continue reading →