While testing a plugin that calls the profile page of players and then uses TinyXml to read values, I noticed that if I kept my profile page open on my browser (Chrome in my case), the page being called wouldn't update.
Basically, I set my profile to private using the web page version of my steam profile (from my server). I tested the plugin and it returned that the profile was private. I then changed my profile back to public, tested the plugin, but the plugin kept returning the profile was private.
I was pulling out my hair as to why the thing wouldn't see that the profile was public when I could clearly see on the web page it was public and even looking at the xml version, it was public.
when I closed the browser and tried the plugin again, it worked.
just thought I'd pass on my experience
