[Xerte] Re: Standard method of preventing caching?

Wed Jan 19 09:45:09 GMT 2011

url = 'http://blah.com?' + new Date().getTime();
makes a unique URL to prevent caching.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 19 January 2011 02:56
To: Xerte list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Standard method of preventing caching?

Thnx, I'll give it a whirl.

I vaguely remember the old pragma/no-cache and querystring tricks, just wasn't sure where to add them to force as many objects to reload as possible.

You think refreshing the swf will reload any of the called files?
Or shall I need to add random strings to all external calls (which is pretty much everything Xerte displays;-)).

Someone must have run across caching of external text/xml files in the past?

> From: Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:26:11 +0000
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Standard method of preventing caching?
>
> in the embed code, when you load a swf, and some xml just add a fake get variable on the end
>
> name.swf?time = insert random number here (usually call a Unix timestap function)
>
> This works in toolkits (see there for examples).
> ________________________________________
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Swanson [Paul.Swanson at harlandfs.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 11:09 PM
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Standard method of preventing caching?
>
> Not sure if it would cascade to a flash piece, but to prevent caching of the html loading page add the following to the <head></head> section of your web page:
>
> <meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate">
> <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
> <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1">
>
> Paul
>
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 2:28 PM
> To: Xerte list
> Subject: [Xerte] Standard method of preventing caching?
>
> cacheing?
> ka-ching?
>
>
> I don't think streaming stuff gets cached anyway, so the bulky stuff is no problem.
>
> But I'd like to force down everything else fresh each time (at least until it's stable).
>
> swfs, xml's rlo's etc.
>
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