Comments on: Ajax vs Caching

By: Douglas

Douglas — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:15:19 +0000

Man, I tried all these things you said, but I couldn’t fix this caching issue using AJAX.
Now I’m using a simple workaround to make IE do not recognize my request as being the same:

To every AJAX request created, I append to it a parameter called “uid” just like the followint:

var action = “action.do”; // your normal action string
var date = new Date();
var URL = action + “&uid=” + date.getTime();
xmlHttp.open(“GET”, actionURL, true);
xmlHttp.send(null);

This date.getTime() function returns time in milliseconds, so, the request will never hava the same URL string!

I gave up to unable caching. Either way, this way I don’t need to worry about various kinds of browsers (IE, FF, Opera, Safari…).

Regards,
Douglas.

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By: gaurav

gaurav — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:46:46 +0000

good work

i had the same problemm wid the ajax updater………………but nw its seems dat i hv the solution

good work dude

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:24:12 +0000

Thanks for this. Nowhere else seems to explain the problem (or indeed that there is a problem)

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