FAQ Topic - How do I force a reload from the server/prevent caching?

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FAQ Topic - How do I force a reload from the server/prevent caching?
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To reload a page, use location.reload(). However, this depends
upon the cache headers that your server sends. To change this,
you need to alter the server configuration. A quick fix on the
client is to change the page URI so that it contains a unique
element, such as the current time. For example:
« location.replace(location.href+'?d='+new Date().valueOf()) »
If the location.href already contains a Query String, use:
« location.replace(location.href+'&d='+new Date().valueOf()) »

http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/

http://docs.sun.com/source/816-6408-10/date.htm
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[Evertjan.]

FAQ server wrote on 27 okt 2006 in comp.lang.javascript:

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FAQ Topic - How do I force a reload from the server/prevent caching?
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To reload a page, use location.reload(). However, this depends
upon the cache headers that your server sends. To change this,
you need to alter the server configuration. A quick fix on the
client is to change the page URI so that it contains a unique
element, such as the current time. For example:
® location.replace(location.href+'?d='+new Date().valueOf()) ¯

new Date().valueOf().toString(36)

will give a more compact [8 against 13 chars] equally functional string,
[non repeating if the time between requests is of reasonable length.]

If the location.href already contains a Query String, use:
® location.replace(location.href+'&d='+new Date().valueOf()) ¯

This is a bad advice, since a d=.. could be already present or
it's absense to be tested.

Use:

location.replace(location.href+'&new Date().valueOf())

or as shown above:

location.replace(location.href+'&new Date().valueOf().toString(36))

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[vifito]

Idea:
location.href = location.href + '&' + Math.random();

Evertjan. wrote:

FAQ server wrote on 27 okt 2006 in comp.lang.javascript:

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FAQ Topic - How do I force a reload from the server/prevent caching?
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To reload a page, use location.reload(). However, this depends
upon the cache headers that your server sends. To change this,
you need to alter the server configuration. A quick fix on the
client is to change the page URI so that it contains a unique
element, such as the current time. For example:
® location.replace(location.href+'?d='+new Date().valueOf()) ¯

new Date().valueOf().toString(36)

will give a more compact [8 against 13 chars] equally functional string,
[non repeating if the time between requests is of reasonable length.]

If the location.href already contains a Query String, use:
® location.replace(location.href+'&d='+new Date().valueOf()) ¯

This is a bad advice, since a d=.. could be already present or
it's absense to be tested.

Use:

location.replace(location.href+'&new Date().valueOf())

or as shown above:

location.replace(location.href+'&new Date().valueOf().toString(36))

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

[Richard Cornford]

vifito wrote:

Idea:
location.href = location.href + '&' + Math.random();

Two consecutive random numbers may be the same number, and numbers
certainly may re-occur within a session, or the expiry period of a cached
document. Time values have the advantage of being a non-repeating
sequence so they will all be unique if requested less frequently than the
rate at which time is incremented on OS in use.

Richard.

[Kevin Darling]

FAQ server wrote:

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FAQ Topic - How do I force a reload from the server/prevent caching?
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To reload a page, use location.reload(). However, this depends
upon the cache headers that your server sends.

The option of "location.reload(true)" should perhaps be mentioned.
Without the parameter, you can get what's in the cache. The "true"
is supposed to force a real reload.

Kev

[Dr J R Stockton]

In message <Xn********************@194.109.133.242>, Fri, 27 Oct 2006
08:05:08, Evertjan. <ex**************@interxnl.netwrites

>
new Date().valueOf().toString(36)

will give a more compact [8 against 13 chars] equally functional
string, [non repeating if the time between requests is of reasonable
length.]

And

(+new Date()).toString(36)

gives the same with less code.
I suggest rewording "of reasonable length", since at first I took it to
mean "not too long" - and there the limit would be over 275,000 years.

AFAIK, a nominal 55 ms will always be long enough for the time to have
changed.

With the sort of algorithm which one expects to be used, Math.Random()
will repeat only after 2^32, 2^53, or 2^64 calls. Conversions to String
*may* repeat more often on the average, and possibly sometimes quite
soon. It is probably initialised from the clock, either per-page or per
browser instance. That gets complex.

<URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/js-randm.htm#MRshould show the
resolution of Math.random(); but think about the code.

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