No Cache Needed !!

[d.shankar]

Heloo all..

I need a great help.. My site uses flash and when i update the flash file and put it in the server and refresh again.. The same old flash file is being showed..[because the files are getting cached in the browsers history]

I have used many meta tags to avoid caching.. but it seems failing..

Anyone have idea to overcome this problem ?? Please help me guys...

[Coditor]

In these cases, I've always added a bogus parameter to the swf file, with a PHP random value:

src="myfile.swf?bogus=<?= mt_rand(1000, 9999) ?>"

That way it won't be cached. I know this sucks, but at least for development it helps.

Coditor

[revq]

Your other option is to do a forced refresh - when you see the page hold down ctrl + F5, or hold down ctrl while clicking on the refresh button - it will reload the entire web site, ignoring anything in the cache. This isnt exactly something you can expect the public to do so for a live site, Coditor's suggestion is good - but for changes to a site still in development this should help.

[Coditor]

Unfortunately that doens't always work for Flash movies. It looks like the Flash plugin uses it's own cache...

[d.shankar]

hi coditor & revq,

Yeah u r right i too have used the rand?<php echo(... to load a new flash file..

but as revq said , ctrl+F5 thing.. but users dont do it normally..

tried many things in meta tag but it not helping guys ??

anyother help would be greatly appreciated !!!

[sanketce]

If your server supports PHP then try this in beginning...

use below code to disable caching:

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<?php
// Date in the past
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");

// always modified
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");
 
// HTTP/1.1
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);

// HTTP/1.0
header("Pragma: no-cache");
?>

[d.shankar]

thanks sanket ...

i havent tried this.. will this work for all browsers ??

[Coditor]

All browsers should recognize those headers and ignore/disable cache. Still, I don't know if the flashplayer does.

[d.shankar]

yeah thats the thing..

the flash player is the problem ..

[sanketce]

Sure this is server side code and supported by all browsers. Go ahead and check it out..