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Difference between F5, Ctrl + F5 and click on refresh button?


I have often experienced while developing my web applications that pressing F5 or refresh doesn't produce or refresh the proper result. But when we hit Ctrl + F5 it generates the correct result. What is the basic difference between simple F5 and Ctrl + F5?

I have often also experienced that pressing simple F5 and pressing the Refresh button in the browser also generate different results.

What is the basic difference among all these requests?


Solution

  • CTRL+F5 Reloads the current page, ignoring cached content and generating the expected result.