Intermittent corruption of published web pages

**Spinny** · 09 March 2010, 01:53 PM

I had an issue where after upload the HTML of some pages would be corrupted, such as the last couple of lines of the old page appearing after the final </html> of the new upload. Only intermittent, actually a bit uncommon, but very annoying when it happened. I was publishing via an external FTP client, and one day (after it had happened a couple of times in one day) I dumped the client I was using and switched to another. Hasn't happened since.

The other workaround is, of course, to delete the old stuff before uploading the new, but being free to avoid that step is nice.

**ChrisBro** · 09 March 2010, 01:59 PM

I always though the problem was more to do with was was stored in your browsers internal cache? So deleting everything from your server first although excellent practice would not alter what is in a persons internal cache.

Maybe I misunderstand somewhere but for me to solve this problem the simple ctrl and f5 to force a browser refresh has always worked, the point being expecting clients and site viewers to do this how would they know?

Interesting you didn't experience the problem yourself after changing ftp clients though, cant really see how that would make much if any difference at all?

Chris

**Spinny** · 09 March 2010, 02:01 PM

My case wasn't old cache information, the actual uploaded files were corrupted. Clearing the cache would just re-load the corrupted pages in that case.

**ChrisBro** · 09 March 2010, 02:18 PM

OK had my wires crossed lol it has been known

I may have chimed in here with something irrelevant then ooops my bad sorry op

Chris

**Spinny** · 09 March 2010, 02:20 PM

No, no, it's also quite possible the OP's situation was reading from cache after the image numbers had changed in the software. I was just chiming in with a case to point out that you can't always assume it's a cache issue: sometimes corruption DOES happen.

**Cloud** · 11 March 2010, 08:14 AM

I had the same problem after making a few changes to my site, now every time I make a change I delete all the files off the server before I upload, solves the problem.

Kash