Using CTRL + F5 in your browser

I recently found the CTRL+F5 shortcut key that you can use in your browser to refresh a page that you are viewing. Below is an explanation of the difference between that and using F5, from the Microsoft Knowledge Base article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306832.

Refresh the current Web page              F5 or CTRL+R

Refresh the current Web page, even if     CTRL+F5

the time stamp for the Web version and 

your locally stored version are the same  

 

Basically, CTRL+F5 will force the page and your cache for that page to be reloaded from the web server, while F5 will just refresh the page and display the cached version if one exists.

CTRL+F5 behaves this way for all Internet Explorer versions as well as Firefox, I am not sure about other browsers.

IE7 & Fiddler

This is probably old news for most folks... But since I recently upgraded my browser to IE7 in support of a project that I am working on, this was new to me. Fiddler will not pickup http requests from http://localhost if you are using IE7. The Configuring Clients section on Fiddler site explains why and how to work around the issue.

I also found this post showing that you can use http://localhost./ (note the extra dot at the end).