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

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Awais Qarni picture Awais Qarni · Dec 21, 2011 · Viewed 124.9k times · Source

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?

Answer

Alex picture Alex · Dec 21, 2011

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

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