Here's how to download the Chrome offline installer for use under any network condition. As Chrome for OS X is only offered as a standalone. If using that link redirects you to the online. Chrome OS is based on web apps, so it’s also hard to tell the difference between the OS and the Chrome browser when using a Chromebook – functionally, they are the same thing.
Chrome Caches Redirects, is a known behavior and not one that is planned to change. This is a logical decision, unfortunately the lack of any obvious mechanism to clear these redirects is frustrating at times. There are generally two situations where this occurs. When the Website Returns a HTTP Status Code Redirect When a server sends a webpage it includes headers. These headers can include an instruction to redirect the visitor to another page. A common redirect header is the. Once Chrome caches this response, it will automatically redirect to the new location without checking with the server.
The problem is that even if the server stops sending the 301 redirect, Chrome will continue redirecting to the new url. When the Content Contains a Meta Refresh Redirect In this case, the server responds with a 200 status code indicating that the page loaded just fine. However, in the content of the page is included a like Personally, I’ve found this often arises when creating a new site using cPanel. If you visit the new site before adding an index page, you are redirected to /cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi.
After you add an index page, you’ll find you are still redirected to /cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi and this redirect is surprisingly difficult to clear. How to Clear a Redirect from Google Chrome’s Cache The secret is to use the Chrome Developer Tools, which are built-in to Chrome. Open the Chrome Developer Tools You can open the Chrome Developer Tools in both Windows and OS X by doing the following:. Select the Chrome Menu Button at the top-right of your browser window. Click More tools in the nav.
Click Developer tools in the sub-nav that opens 2. Open the Chrome Developer Tools Settings Open the Customize and control DevTools menu by clicking the three vertical dots (in the picture, this icon is highlighted by the red rectangle for emphasis). Then choose Settings from the nav. Disable cache Under the Network heading, click the checkbox for Disable cache (while DevTools is open). Do NOT close the Developer Tools Window. Visit the problem url In the URL bar, type the url that was being redirected. At this time you should not be redirected.
Fictional Example Initially, redirects to but you then remove the redirect and add content at. Unfortunately, every time you visit you are still redirected. You can avoid this by using Incognito Mode but that is a short-term fix. Clear the Redirect. Open Chrome Developer Tools. Open the Settings for Chrome Developer Tools. Check Disable cache (while DevTools is open).
Visit and find yourself pleasantly surprised to not be redirected. How do You Deal with Cached Redirects in Chrome?
I’d love to hear about other ways people are clearing these cached urls. Hi Gary, Based on your comment, I’ve been doing some testing. At this point, it seems there are two different redirect caching problems affecting Chrome. The case where there is a redirect code (e.g.
301) passed back in the header of the response and this gets cached. The case where there is NO redirect code but the actual markup contains a meta tag that redirects. The view-source trick will correct the second scenario but not the first. It does appear that using the Chrome developer tools and checking “Disable cache (while DevTools is open)” will correct both cases, so I have updated this post to recommend that technique. Thanks for your note. There’s arguably a third method: using cookie data. In this case, the 301 gets passed in the response header but the issue is not that it gets cached, rather the server always responds with a 301 based on the data passed to it in the cookie from the old request.
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This just happened to me. I knew something my browser was caching was the problem because the redirect didn’t happen in Incognito mode, but the redirect persisted after disabling cache. Removing the cookies for the domain fixed the problem. Hi Hal, I agree cached redirects can be a nightmare though I’ve not yet encountered one that required a clean install of Chrome though that is no guarantee the situation does not exist. There has been more than one time I’ve banged my head against a cached redirect for way to long only to discover that in fact, I had not removed the redirect. I’ve found curl is a great command line tool to check for this.
Curl -I Will hit the URL and show the HTTP status code returned, anything in the 300s would indicate a redirect. My next step, would be to use the Chrome developer tools Network panel with the Preserve log option turned on and read the output there. I’ve tried curl. It works fine. FF works fine. Wget works fine.
W3m works fine. Its only chrome.
I’ve tried View Source, Network disable cache, delete cookies and cache for the last 4 weeks, Incognito mode, manually setting a redirect in.htaccess to over-ride the cached redirect. That doesn’t work because the request never hits the server (verified by checking the server logs). As does the Developer tools logging shows nothing for the same reason. I’ve tried suggestions on other sites, including Google help forums. Its a total time sink. This is a site under development.
I finally just created a different dev domain for it. At some point I have to get some work done:/. I’m unaware of any server side technique to force the client to clear their cached redirect. Since the redirect is cached, the web browser follows the redirect without ever contacting the server. Unfortunately, this makes any change on the server side irrelevant. There are things you can do ahead of time with Cache-Control and Expires Headers but once the redirects are cached by the browser, it is out of your control on the server side.
I find this fact has made me very cautious when setting up redirects. I hope someone following this thread can give me advice on a similar issue – I mistakenly set a 301 incorrectly. I corrected the mistake in htaccess. Here is the weirdness: At my work, where I had never visited the site during this problem, the incorrect redirect is not in effect. Also when I check the redirect it does not appear. However, at home, where my whole screwup played out, the redirect is still in effect. I”ve tried all of the various cache clearing methods to no avail.
Here’s the kicker: This morning I visited the site on one of my kid’s computers, which has not visited the site at all, ever. This computer follows the no-longer-existing incorrect redirect! Even though there is no possible way it is cached in the browser. This seems to mean that the 301 is cached somewhere out there in the internet. It’s no longer in htaccess, so where could it be?
Is it in my router somehow? Is it related to DNS? Anyone have a clue? Since Sal has been of immense help to me, I thought i could add a few cent solutions. If you followed Sal’s solution and all of the other suggestions and you find that your browser/s is still reproducing the page. Clear cookies on other browsers too As some browsers are set to import sessions and cookies from other browsers. You can also try chrome://net-internals.
But if all fails and it still persists on your PC esp windows. “A simple hard shutdown will do it”.
Since the session cookies are some how saved in the PC’s RAM. So simply Pressing down your power button and removing the battery will do it. This did it for me after trying every solution out there.
I noticed the problem was reproduced in every other browser except Firefox but not on a different device. I even changed server IP to be sure it wasn’t cached somewhere on the web. Sometimes we think the solutions are complex when they are as simple as shutting down your PC; to clear every data cached in RAM. Hi Sal, and all thats been here.
This may- probably is! – be totally off to ask here, but it does include re-directs. Since this latest round of political madness, ISP’s as we all know now can monitor/track/sell etc. All usage online. That cat’s been out of the bag for a while, silly to think otherwise, however its this next part thats awful. One of the more insidious things is search results redirects – you search using Chrome topbar, then suddenly results are showing in your isp providers search page results, Not from the search engine you picked or use (in my case, Spectrum with Bing search results) that started.wait for it.literally the day that that law got rescinded.
(I reached out to them on Twitter, no reply of course) Is there a methodology that can be used to circumvent that intrusion, or we all doomed, Doomed! To buying a VPN service to preserve some semblance of privacy? Best Regards! Does anybody know how to clear a redirection that is from HTTP to HTTPS. I have a site which used to be on a host with HTTPS but the domain has been moved to a different site which now doesn’t have HTTP. Problem is that all Chrome browsers that had loaded the old site are still redirecting to HTTPS, which no longer exists.
I cleared the browser cache and even cleared HSTS settings in chrome://net-internals/#hsts but the redirect still happens. Works fine in incognito mode or other browsers that had never visited the old site. Hi Alex and Giovanni, My first choice in this situation would be to add an SSL certificate so the sites run on HTTPS. Recognizing this isn’t always possible, if I were trying to clear the redirect I would do the following. Check the HSTS Header is Not Being Sent If you’re not familiar with how to view your headers, you can check out on StackOverflow. You’re looking for a line that starts with Strict-Transport-Security: this is the HSTS header.
If you like using the command line (and you have `curl` and `grep` installed), the following command pulls in the headers and looks for the HSTS header. If found it displays the HSTS header, if not it displays a not found message.
Replace example.com with your website. Curl -sIL grep 'Strict-Transport-Security' echo 'HSTS header not found' If you are getting an HSTS header, you need to modify your server to stop sending this header. Clear any stored HSTS header in Chrome As mentioned in Alex’s post, you can go to chrome://net-internals/#hsts to manage stored HSTS values. Using Query HSTS/PKP domain you can check for a stored HSTS value by domain. If you do have an HSTS value stored, you can use Delete domain security policies to remove it. Clear General Redirects After all of that, I would go through the steps outlined in this blog post to clear any non-HSTS redirects. Best of luck.
I’ve look into this very extensively recently. This is what I found. There are two types of redirects “temp” (302) and “permanent” (301). (There are more, but I have not investigated them at this time.
Perhaps someone could help here?) If you use a “permanent” redirect, the browser stores the redirect indefinitely. If you use a “temp” redirect the browser stores the redirect as expired. It will do the redirect, but it marks the redirect as expired immediately after that use. Thus, if you use a permanent redirect the client’s browser does not contact the server for the initial URL, the client browser only sends what it stored for the redirect to the server. Thus the server has no way to control the client anymore.
The only way to correct the problem is to have each and every user clear their cache. However, if you use a “temp” redirect the browser will ask the server for a new redirect each time it attempts to load the page. This results in slightly greater net traffic, but unless your or something similar, the extra traffic is negotiable. With the client browser asking for the current redirect, the server still has control.
I say “permanent redirects” are considered harmful. I was having a hard time with a 301 redirect on my website never changing on my browser, even using the network - Disable cache (while DevTools is open) with dev tools open. I am not sure if it makes any difference, but initial i had the 301 redirect point to a url on a different domain. I have later changed it to be a url within the domain of redirect. The old domain URL still returns a page. I have never encountered or noticed a redirect be so persistent. What I did do was use some jquery to perform a get request at the url that was having problems.
In DevTools I put in the console: $.get(“which returned the post response as 200 and I could see the html of the new page I wanted Sure enough now my browser redirects to the right place. Great, I am technical, but now the problem is, how do I get people who visit my site to pick up this change? I can’t explain to everyone to do this.