Platonides wrote:
Steve Summit wrote:
Try loading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RD/S, in lynx. When I do it just now, I get a version dated 16:15, on January 25.
I have no idea why stale pages are more prevalent in lynx, but they really do appear to be.
Using a different browser, you'll have different queries (Accept-Encoding?) so accesing a different set of cached results.
Aha! I shouldn't have said "I have no idea", because that's what I kind of suspected. But I'd never managed to confirm that there's caching at that level of granularity and header visibility. Thanks.
Having few people using lynx is probably a factor to have the stale pages longer.
Sure, but: why are the pages still stale at all?