Thanks for the hack! It seems to work fine :)
However, it is interesting to know whether there are more legal and correct way
(not urgent at all :))
Andrey
On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:43:59 -0700
Konstantin Svist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> had the same problem a long time ago.
> the way to solve it is to append current time to the request url.
> random strig doesn't help since it might repeat.
> here's my hacky way of doing it (noCache is a parameter to the
> xmlhttprequest handling function, defaults to true):
>
> // use the time hack if caller doesn't want cached request
> if (noCache) {
> url += (url.match(/\?/) == null ? '?' : '&') + (new Date()).getTime
> (); }
>
> This should append the unix time to the request as a parameter,
> taking care to insert a ? or & when needed
> e.g.:
> http://foo.com/bar.html -> http://foo.com/bar.html?12345
>
> http://foo.com/bar.html?foobar=baz ->
> http://foo.com/bar.html?foobar=baz&12345
>
>
> HTH
>
> Andrey Gromyko wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > In the NewsFox extension I use next lines to download feed(s):
> >
> > var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
> > xmlhttp.open("get", feed.url);
> > xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0
> > NewsFox/0.3.4"); xmlhttp.overrideMimeType("application/xml");
> > xmlhttp.onload = function() { checkFeed(index,
> > xmlhttp.responseXML); } xmlhttp.send(null);
> >
> > Adding the next line before send doesn't help to avoid the use of
> > Firefox's cache: xmlhttp.channel.loadFlags =
> > Components.interfaces.nsICachingChannel.LOAD_BYPASS_CACHE;
> >
> > And that causes problems with some feeds. Does anybody know how can
> > I bypass the cache? Similarly tp the behaviour of the browser when
> > somebody pressed Shift+Reload.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andrey
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