Are you using WiFi or your phone's data connection?
I saw this strange issue with this Origami Iris game where it would somehow load a page from the cache if I used my MetroPCS connection. Didn't happen on Wifi though. Very weird. On Friday, November 2, 2012 1:27:38 AM UTC-5, Keith Wiley wrote: > > A few weeks ago I mentioned that I was experiencing unwanted http caching > (I mentioned it here because I wasn't sure if the cause of the problem was > the Android OS performing the caching in a way that didn't make sense to > me). At the time, it was suggested that I experiment with getUseCaches() > and setUseCaches(). This has definitely not solved the problem. First of > all, it does indeed appear that caching is enabled by default (as is > GZipping the stream interestingly, I think I've read about this > somewhere). However, setting caching false doesn't help. Not only does my > app not confidently load an updated version of the file from the server, > but it doesn't even detect that the file is gone from the server (if I > change its name for example). Rather, the app still happily retrieves the > cached version of the file, even though I'm calling setUseCaches(false). > Does anyone have any thoughts on how else to fix this problem? I know > there is a solution because the phone's web browser app (actually, I'm > using Dolphin) properly loads the server version of the file every time. > > Once again, I don't mean to bring this up on an Android forum if it really > isn't an Android issue...but I'm not sure whether the problem is coming > from the Android system for some reason (I'm not sure whether I should > expect my code to work in any other Java environment, just not Android). > Where else might the cache be coming from if the URLConnection's useCaches > variable is definitely false (verified as I step over setUseCaches(false) > in the debugger)? > > I'm sorry if this is off-topic, I appreciate any help. Here's how I load > the file: > > String address = "httpUrlOfFileOnMyWebserver"; > URL url = new URL(address); > HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); > if (conn.getUseCaches()) > conn.setUseCaches(false); > InputStream is = (InputStream)conn.getContent(); > Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"); > StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); > char[] buffer = new char[1024]; > for (int length = 0; (length = reader.read(buffer)) > 0;) > writer.write(buffer, 0, length); > is.close(); > reader.close(); > writer.close(); > String fileStr = writer.toString(); > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
