Issue retrieving data from ajax call to coldfusion page in IE (firefox works fine)

[dmorand]

I have a page where I'm using ajax to retrieve some employee info when a user clicks a "Retrieve Employee Info" button.

The issue I'm having is that when the user updates the employee info, saves the data, then hits the retrieve employee info button again the data being retrieved is the original data, not the updated data. This only occurs in any IE browser, firefox works fine. In firefox everytime I hit the retrieve employee info button, the correct info is retrieved. It's almost like it's cached the response from the coldfusion page and isn't calling it again.

I am validating the data by using the alert box in the function below.

****This works fine in Firefox******

function displayResponse(request,func) {
  //alert(request.readyState);
  if (request.readyState == 4) {
    if (request.status == 200 || request.status == 304) {
      if (request.responseText.length>0){
          init_employee(request.responseText,func);
          alert(request.responseText);
      }
      else{
          alert("No Employee Found!");
        var emp_answer = confirm("Would you like to create a new employee");
        if(emp_answer==true){
            init_employee('invalid')
            window.open ("employee_mgmt.cfm","mywindow",'height=350,width=725');
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
 

<cfquery name="employeeExists" datasource="Performance_Eval" dbtype="ODBC">
    select last_name,first_name,dept,title,job_code,convert(char(10),date_of_hire,101) as 'date_of_hire'
    from employee 
    where emp_id='#URL.emp_id#'
</cfquery>
<cfif #employeeExists.RecordCount# neq 0>
    <cfoutput query="employeeExists">#last_name#,#first_name#,#dept#,#title#,#job_code#,#date_of_hire#</cfoutput>
</cfif>
 

[acoder]

This is the typical IE caching problem. Make the URL unique to prevent caching, e.g.

url+"?d="+(new Date).getTime()

[dmorand]

This is the typical IE caching problem. Make the URL unique to prevent caching, e.g.

url+"?d="+(new Date).getTime()

Cool thanks acoder, let me give this a shot. I can't stand IE, it pisses me off.

[acoder]

Did this work? If not, setting some headers may also solve the problem.