[thelist] Cache control

Mark Howells mark at mountain.ch
Wed Dec 19 06:25:35 CST 2001


That's the method that I have in the Javascript running on my webcam
<http://www.mark.ac/livecam> (when it's working!), so that the image is
refreshed from the server every minute. I've tested it and it seems to work
well in most browsers.

Regards
Mark Howells
Working in a Winter Wonderland
http://www.mark.ac

> Von: "Peter-Paul Koch" <gassinaumasis at hotmail.com>
> Betreff: [thelist] Cache control
> 
> What I did was simply appending the time in milliseconds to the query string
> so that each request would have a unique URL.
> 
> My question is: is this a completely fail safe method of avoiding caching?
> (Assume JavaScript is always enabled).





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