I've tested it in all browsers.
IE, Safari, Opera, Chrome, FireFox
Anything else I don't really care about. But first tests are in chrome and it
is doing it in that. IE has been the worse but all work after refreshing one or
two times.
------Original Message------
From: Steven Sacks
To: Nathan Mynarcik
To: Flash Coders List
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] NoCache XML
Sent: Mar 26, 2010 8:36 PM
Safari doesn't honor nocache. Safari is a jerk. Are you using Safari?
On 3/26/2010 3:35 PM, Nathan Mynarcik wrote:
> That's similar to what I am doing. I know for a fact that the url doesn't
> already have a "?" in it.
>
> I have no clue why on some visits, the colors and other xml data is not
> pulled. Then on a refresh it pulls them.
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: Steven Sacks
> To: Nathan Mynarcik
> To: Flash Coders List
> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] NoCache XML
> Sent: Mar 26, 2010 5:27 PM
>
> It should always work. Perhaps the url of the xml has a ? already in it?
>
> public function nocache(url:String):String
> {
> var d:Date = new Date();
> var nc:String = "nocache=" + d.getTime();
> if (url.indexOf("?")> -1) return url + "&" + nc;
> return url + "?" + nc;
> }
>
>
> On 3/26/2010 2:27 PM, Nathan Mynarcik wrote:
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I am loading in an external xml doc via
>>
>> loadXML("url of xml");
>>
>> To prevent browsers from caching the xml, I add at the end of the url string
>> a Date object like:
>>
>> loadXML("url of xml"+"?nocache="+new Date().getTime());
>>
>> This sometimes works and other times doesn't. The xml is the backbone to the
>> colors used in the UI of my site which goes black when the load doesn't work
>> properly.
>>
>> I have tried to add an IOERROREvent function to catch the error and then
>> supply the url to the load function without the Date object appended.
>>
>> Is there any checks or different directions I can take to prevent visitors
>> from sometimes having to refresh until the xml gets loaded correctly?
>> Nathan Mynarcik
>> Interactive Web Developer
>> [email protected]
>> 254.749.2525
>> www.mynarcik.com
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>
> Nathan Mynarcik
> Interactive Web Developer
> [email protected]
> 254.749.2525
> www.mynarcik.com
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