Odd IIS v6 .html file caching behavior: Ideas?

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Published on 2012-06-11T04:51:34Z Indexed on 2012/06/15 15:18 UTC
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Our loadbalancer looks for "loadbalancer.html"

So today, I deleted the file, but in a browser I could still fetch it.

My eyes crossed, I made sure, 3 ways, that the file was removed from the iis web site home dir. But fetching it gave a nice 200 http response, and the file.

In desperation, I created a new loadbalancer.html, and put some test text in it, and then this new content was retrieved, and then I deleted this file, and THEN it finally gave the 404 as desired.

How can I better understand/control this ?

Thanks!

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