Determining where a file is being cached

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Published on 2013-07-01T15:54:28Z Indexed on 2013/07/01 16:22 UTC
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I've got a debian webserver running apache, from which I regularly download an executable using IE 8 on an XP virtual machine (over LAN). However, I realised that somewhere along the line that I've been repeatedly running the same version (and wondering why my changes weren't being displayed).

A Ctrl+F5 in IE will let me download the new version (although the page is always updated with a simple F5).

This makes me suspect that the caching is happening in windows/IE, but I'm not certain.

Wherever it's happening, is there an easy way to prevent it at the server? Eventually, we're hoping to offer the software to the entire company, and we'd like to avoid having to tell everyone to do a Ctrl+F5 every time there's an updated version.

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