Re: headers: setting right for browser to force reload at a certain point in time

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German Geek wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> We have an application that generates dynamic ebooks. One of the
> (minor) problems (but yet annoying) is that when a user comes back to
> an ebook, they have to actually delete the cache and reload the page
> to not get the cached version which might be wrong because the content
> or even the flash application is updated.

Deleting the cache should not be necessary, a reload should be enough.
(it certainly is with Firefox).

> It would be neat if we could force a reload of the page, but only with
> a special condition like the ebook being updated or the swf. The swf
> and also the other resources are not reloaded though, because it is a
> get request.

The request type has nothing to do with it - the browser will do a
conditional GET if the local copy is expired.  Just set the right
expiry time on your files when you serve them, then they will
automatically be checked by the browser.  


/Per


-- 
Per Jessen, Zürich (2.8°C)


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