I need to create a page with a link to a text file (for the user to save) that must not be cached. The name of the text file will remain the same, but the content will change based on previous user actions. I tried the "no-cache" option in the head...but that didn't help. Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Which web server are you using?

If IIS, (and you have Admin access) open IIS Manager, right-click on your text file, select properties, then go to the HTTP Headers tab. From there, Enable Content Expiration and select Expire Immediately. This should cause an entry in the HTTP header that a properly-behaving cache should obey and not store the information. If that doesn't work, sometimes you can play around with Expire After (Set it to 0 or 1 minute) and Expire On (Set to a prior date) to get it to work. Some caches are nonobedient, and sometimes IIS does weird unexpected things.

In Apache, you can use the functionality of the Apache module mod_expires. It's included with the base Apache source, but I don't think it is compiled by default. You'll need to check to see if it was included during compilation. (If not, use APXS to add it (apxs -i -a -c mod_expires.c) then restart Apache) I don't think it is added by default.

With mod_expires in place, add something like this to httpd.conf:
For more info on mod_expires see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_expires.html

If you are using a different web server, I have no idea. :)

I've never experienced any problems related to caching when it comes to static files such as text-files and IIS, but anyhow:
As Klom Dark says, you could add http-headers.
But I would add the header:
'cache-control'
set to the value:
'no-cache'
- this should also prevent web-proxies from caching the file so that the client always gets the file direct from your server.

Cahce-control header:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/...4.html#sec14.9

That worked. Thanks for your help!