Dear all,

I found my IIS web server cached some ASP files and it seems not to be flushed for a long time.

For example:
When I use an asp file named test1.asp, once it is called from web browser, the web server will cache it indefinitely even if I change it to another file name (e.g. test2.asp)!

Finally, I've to disable the option "Do not cache ASP file" in IIS. Is it a tradeoff? Actually, one thing I worry is the CPU utilization if I disabled this option. Any comment or idea?

Thanks in advance.

Are you sure the problem is IIS caching and not browser caching? If you change the file on the server (or remove it as is the case when you renamed the file) IIS should refresh itself and serve up an error for the file you renamed, or the updated version of a changed file. Double check that you aren't getting browser caching. Quickest way to test that usually works is to use Shift-Refresh (in IE and Netscape at least). This will tell the browser to re-request the files for that page.

Peter
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Dear Peter,

I'm quite sure that is not caused by browser's caching since I've purged the browser's cached files and refreshed the page each time when I test.

The problem is solved after I've chosen the option "Do not cache ASP file" in IIS. In addition, the asp cached file will be flushed after I've restarted the IIS service (i.e. inetinfo.exe).

Alan