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After deploying a new version of a website the browser loads everything from its cache from the old webpage until a force refresh is done. Images are old, cookies are old, and some AJAX parts are not working.
How should I proceed to serve the users with the latest version of the page after deploy?
The webpage is an ASP.Net webpage using IIS7+.
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Before you go straight to clearing your entire browser cache, one trick you can try is something called a 'forced refresh'. Normally, when you refresh a page, your browser still serves up the cached version of the page, rather than downloading all of the assets again.
⇧ Shift-click the Refresh button. While pressing the Refresh button on your browser's address bar will only do a standard refresh, you can force a refresh from the server by pressing ⇧ Shift and clicking it instead. Internet Explorer users should hold ^ Ctrl and click the Refresh button.
You can append a variable to the end of each of your resources that changes with each deploy. For example you can name your stylesheets:
styles.css?id=1 with the id changing each time.
This will force the browser to download the new version as it cannot find it in its cache.
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