Re: [mv] Observations on Rotate Tag not working under Minivend 3.14

[Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>]

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At 06:02 PM 4/17/00 , you wrote:
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>Hi,
>I've come across the same problems with our minivend installation that
>others have been having and reporting to this list.
>It worked fine up until I changed the content of one the pages and uploaded
>it.  From then on, we've had the problems with rotating.  Uploading the old
>page back (and restarting the server) had no effect.
>
>My observations so far:
>
>The rotate tag works as long as there is no session defined for the visit
>(we've got a rotate on the initial index page, and when we try refreshing
>that, it works without a hitch).
>As soon as theres' a session in the url, it locks into the last displayed
>rotate page , with maybe the odd occasional change.
>All I can be assured of at this stage is that it IS rotating, but on a
>per-visitor basis than the more preferable variety of the per-page basis.

Sounds like a (browser or Minivend) caching problem.  My rotate tags work 
perfectly for me.


>Another observation - if there IS a session in the url, we can make it
>rotate succesfully by  uploading the page source via ftp (e.g. the results
>page).  Without this upload, it stays with the same rotate file content -
>but with the upload (and only on the first use of the that file) - the
>content that the rotate tag pulls in changes.

Ah, RESULTS page?  Sure, you're caching your search results.  Turn it off 
if you want your rotate to work.


>If anyone has any suggestions as to what to do about this, I'd be most
>greatful!
>
>Cheers,
>JP Jones
>
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