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Daxst3r

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Some people might know what im talking about, some may not and most of you folk won't have come across this issue!! Lucky you :p

I have several web pages which I can no longer access from my N7, because the first time I went to them, they were unfinished and so redirected to their own 404 error page (no problem)......

BUT!!!! for some crazy reason my N7 has cached the redirects so that now every time I try to access those sites I get the 404 page.

The sites now work on my phone (Wildfire S) and my home PC, my home server and my laptop.

I've tried deleting the Chrome cache and reseting the data (lost all my passwords etc), i've tried installing Firefox Mobile and still get exactly the same problem (which I assume means the problem is more OS based than with Chrome itself).

One instance where it's done this is with my routers (VMDG280) setup page, which now redirects me from 198.168.0.1 straight to the message "Session Timeout! The browser is going to be closed", which as you can imagine is infinitely irritating and a problem that largely affects Chrome users (but nobody has worked out why).

Does anyone please know how to sort this mess out and stop my tablet from caching redirects (preferably without a hard reset) ???
 
kadimi said:
This issue exists on Chrome for other platform as well...
Read this, it can give you some insight: Android: Flush DNS - Stack Overflow
Click to expand...

I found that too, can't do "settings -> applications -> Network Location -> Clear data" on Nexus 7..... There's no visible application by that name.

Problem seems to exist outside of Chrome too, as installing Firefox had the same result.

It's also something partially to do with upper/lower case letters in URLs (i've done some testing).

If a link URL is ww-w.example.com/Webpage.html instead of ww-w.example.com/webpage.html, Chrome gets a redirect to an error page which it them permanently stores. All other browsers ignore the upper case letter and get the correct page. Once the redirect has been cached, even entering the correct lowercase address will get you redirected.
 
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