Chris/Joe, thanks a bunch, but here is my next question (just curious)...
Is it the SWF which is not getting reloaded every time the page is
viewed and thus my data is not getting reloaded or is it my data file
that is cached and therefore the browser just keeps reloading the same
old data file, or is it both?
One other item I notice is that I entered the url for the actual text
file i was attempting to load and when I previewed that file it also
contained old content and did not update until I performed a CTRL F5.
Even attempting to clear the browser cache didn't seem to help.
*Don
*
Joseph Balderson wrote:
You cannot prevent a file from being cached in the browser; what most
"cache" settings are designed to do is prevent session information and
cookies from being cached. The best you can do is force the browser to
grab the file from the server each and every time it is viewed, which
acheives the desired effect.
To do that, all you need is to add the following js to your html file:
..."Main.swf?nocache="+(new Date()).getTime()
I wrote a tutorial on adding this to the flex html template:
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=32F44
This appends a unique number on the end of the file name, tricking the
browser into thinking it's getting a new file every time, thus
downloading the SWF from the server every time. You can use an
equivalent of this technique in ActionScript for loading modules you
don't want "cached" as well.
I would not recommend this technique for production, as it will spike
your server load something terrible, but for testing it's essential.
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Author, Professional Flex 3 :: http://tinyurl.com/proflex3book
Don Schnell - TFE wrote:
Thanks William, I am not sure why there was no text in my original
post but my issue is how to prevent data from being cached in IE &
Firefox.
My SWFs load in data from a flat text file and I tried using the
following No-Cache settings before the head but they don't seem to
prevent this issue.
// prevent browser cache
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
header("Pragma: no-cache");
William Chadwick wrote:
Not sure what you want, as there is no text in your message.
But if you want to know about how SharedObject's work, here you go.
Local SharedObjects (AKA 'Flash Cookies') are stored in the
following path in a directory with a random name:
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
Player\#SharedObjects
There are some really clear articles on them on Adobe's devnet.
William Chadwick
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Don Schnell - TFE
<dschn...@toolsforeducation.com
<mailto:dschn...@toolsforeducation.com>> wrote:
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