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How can I make every request from my browser to hit server and disallow it to pick from the cache?

Apr 6th, 2008 19:41
ha mo, Jean-Bernard Valentaten, John Vijay Kumar,

Well, when I was still into web-programming, I used to disable the 
cache of my browsers, but of course you can also do a hard-reload 
(SHIFT-F5 in IE).
The problem why metas do not work, might be that you have the js-code 
in a spare file a load it via <script src="...">.
The meta-tags do not include these files (though they should), so the 
only way is to disable the cache in the browsers you use, or include a 
button in the webpage that hard-reloads the page onclick.
The onclick-handler looks like this:
onclick=""
This should work.
HTH,
Jean
Hi Jean, 
I appreciate your effort. Thanx for it.
In my case I would like to get this solved by using a script. I tried 
doing this using the meta tag but with no success. My problem in brief 
goes like this:
I change any of the javascript functions and try accessing it after 
making a fresh build with the changes, then I would not get the changes 
reflected unless I delete the cache. Also my intention is to make this 
work irrespective of the browser settings with respect to the cache.
So is there a way out?
Thanx in advance.
Cheers,
John
This is not really a javascript-question, but I'll answer it anyway.
There are three possibilities:
- disable caching in your browser
- use appropriate meta-tags in your documents (read the html manual for 
that)
- use to perform a hard-reload
HTH,
Jean
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