Looping the Loop

In a fit of blogging mania, here’s another one literally barely days after the previous one. Maybe I’ll crack this yet.

Anyway, this is just a short one with what verges on a Technical Contribution. To whit: I recently sorted out this domain and was having some issues getting some consistency between what dig, Chrome and my domain provider believed to be the correct state. In particular, I was switching over to make the domain properly live rather than simply a 301 Moved Permanently redirect to my old pages at Nottingham.

It turns out this was probably mostly Chrome being confused. It seems that it caches 301 Moved Permanently redirects fairly aggressively and the cached entries are not discarded when you go through the standard mechanisms to clear caches.

After a bit of experimentation and browsing, it seems that one way to clear this is to view-source on the page but pass a spurious parameter to defeat the cache. So, to force the browser to fetch http://mort.io properly, all I had to do was view-source:mort.io?spurious=parameter. And lo! All was well.