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January 27th, 2008, 07:38 PM
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Browser cache error causing a legal problem!
This is deeply disturbing-- a close friend's career may be going in the tank because of a browser technicality!
This gentleman hired someone to design his company's website, and unknown to him the designer plagiarized another website. The rightful owner found out and called my friend, who of course agreed to change it. He DID change it. But when the owner went to my friend's completely redone site, he found that the front page had changed, but when clicking on internal links, the same plagiarized content appeared! He was extremely irate at being apparently lied to, and is threatening legal action. *** I know that browsers have default cache settings that can sometimes load old content when live content is unavailable or loading slowly. Is it possible that's what happened here? The angry person simply failed to clear his cache, creating the misconception? I'm appealing in good faith to the altruism of this knowledgeable community. ANY insight at all is much appreciated. Thank you.
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January 28th, 2008, 12:50 AM
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January 28th, 2008, 02:10 AM
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I encounter stuff like this frequently, being in Thailand I've also had problems with the servers not updating as fast as they should. I've had to wait a matter of days for everything to go through and update. For instance, I'll upload a link to a website in America on my site but they sometimes won't see it at their end until 12 hours later.
I don't know exactly what your situation is, but it could be a a simple matter of the server not updating.
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January 28th, 2008, 02:34 AM
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Yes, it does sound as though the browser still has a cached copy of the old site.
Email them a screenshot of the new site together with instructions on how to clear their cache (ctrl + refresh is the easiest way). Alternatively they could use a proxy site to view it, or archive.org in a few months time. If you have changed the website, then any legal action really isn't going to go far and you have nothing to worry about. It's definitely not career tanking stuff.
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January 28th, 2008, 05:30 AM
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Thanks everyone for your input. I think he will be happy with his prospects.
Last edited by cavemanlawyer15 : January 28th, 2008 at 05:34 AM. Reason: typo
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