Hi MC,
That feature probably has to do with caching the results of the AJAX callback
as a variable, for use by other javascript functions, as opposed to a file
cache.
Scott,
On Thursday, December 6, 2007 3:26pm, MC Tay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> This little trick works. Thank you so much.
>
> The AJAX function (Dreamweaver CS3 Spry) that I use supposed to have
> a boolean argument that I can set True/False to Cache/Not Cache the
> data. For some reasons that didn't work.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> MC
>
>
> At 10:36 AM 12/6/2007, you wrote:
>>Hi MC, Well, this is an entirely different problem, trying to
>>prevent caching of a static file. I assumed you were talking about a
>>TAF. My mistake. You'll have to use javascript during your AJAX call
>>to make the url unique. So create a function like: function
>>UrlUnique(p_url){ var v_randomNumber = Math.random(); var
>>v_uniqifier = 'unique=' + v_randomNumber.toString().substr(2);
>>if(p_url.indexOf('?') > 0){ p_url += '&' + v_uniqifier;
>>}else{ p_url += '?' + v_uniqifier; } return p_url; } Than take
>>whatever variable you are using for your XML file, and append the
>>random argument like so: var myXML_url = 'staticFile.xml'; myXML_url
>>= UrlUnique(myXML_url); (pass variable to your AJAX function call)
>>Then you should end up with a unique url address for the file on
>>every call, and it'll look something like
>>staticFile.xml?unique=98462849311 Eventhough the file is static,
>>passing it an argument is harmless because the file will just
>>ignore it, but your browser will fetch a fresh file every time. Hope
>>that helps. Scott, On Thursday, December 6, 2007 1:19pm, MC Tay
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Thanks Scott. This works well on getting
>>data from WiTango. > > I'm also using an AJAX approach (within an
>>html file) to read an XML > file in notepad. In the html file, I
>>have the header setup as follows: > > <head> > <meta
>>http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xml; charset=utf-8" /> >
>><meta name="Pragma" value="no-cache"> > <meta name="Cache-control"
>>value="no-cache, max-age=0, > must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate"> >
>><meta name="Expires" value="-1"> > </head> > > But the XML data is
>>still cached. Any idea where did I do wrong? > > Thanks! > > MC > >
>>At 09:40 AM 12/6/2007, you wrote: >>Hi MC, See the following message
>>from the Archive. The code is for >>newer versions of tango, so if
>>you have to work with the older >>version, replace <@HTTPSTATUSCODE>
>><@HTTPREASONPHRASE> with the text >>200
>>OK. >>http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg10780.h
>>tml >>You could also try adding a random argument value to uniquify
>>the >>URL. Caches are largely based on the entire URL of the
>>content >>(regardless of it's HTML or XML, etc...), so if even a
>>single >>character in the URL has changed the cache is ignored.
>>Example: >>/some.taf?random=<@RANDOM> Or you could use the
>>javascript >>Math.random() function. Hope this helps. Scott, On
>>Thursday, >>December 6, 2007 4:37am, MC Tay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>said: > Hi: > > >>Does anyone know how to prevent XML data from
>>caching? Every time >>I > change an XML file, I keep getting old
>>data even the browser is >>refreshed. > > Thanks! > >
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