Much better approach! Now, my question is, what do people do to prevent caching of swf files themselves?
Here's the setup: I'm deploying a business app, and want all users to see the update to the SWF. However, I don't want to tell everyone to clear their cache. Should I just pass a version number to the swf request, to update to that point, ie - point to: $vers = "1.0.2"; $path = "/flash/myMovie.swf?vers=" . $vers; <object file=$path>...etc. Is there a best practice for this kind of thing? I'm also curious how this will apply to Module development in Flex. How do I make sure that people have current modules, without blasting their cache, every time? Thanks, -Scott On 3/14/07, Thomas Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm sure someone has already mentioned this but you could always append the date in milliseconds to the query string as well. Like so: var date : Date = new Date(); url:String = resource + "?d=" + date.UTC(); ----- Original Message ----- From: "slangeberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]>; "Flashcoders mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:52 AM Subject: [Flashcoders] Re: [flexcoders] Re: Caching problem > That'll work with any cache-busting you need to do. I use it in testing, > to > un-cache the swf file itself, when viewed on server. Ie: send rand var in > url and if it's present, pass it in to swf call (swfobject + php, here): > > var so = new SWFObject( "ProductBuilder.swf?rand=<?=$rand?>", > "product_builder", "100%", "100%", "9", "#FFFFFF"); > > Saves me the 'pain' of going through some menu to clear browser's cache, > not > to mention losing your browser's cache, in order to update one element! > > -Scott > > On 14 Mar 2007 08:44:42 -0700, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Wow! O_O' Works flawlessly!! :-D >> >> Many thanks for that trick dude! >> >> --- In [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, >> slangeberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > With Flash, I've learned to do the lo-tech method of attaching >> random >> > numbers to the path. 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