Build guy needs help with JavaScript :-)

[shaneras]

I came into work today and this bug had been assigned to me:

"Need to figure out a scheme that causes as little work as possible to make certain the the browser fetches new versions of javascript and resources correctly. So browser caching needs to cache things normally, but fetch any new versions appropriately."

Any ideas on how to do this? Any help on where to point me to whould be great. Possibly CVS? It took me all day just to figure out how to compress and obfuscate .js files, this next task sounds a bit harder

 

[OSR]

hmmm, im not sure what your asking for actually -- the cache-ing of files and requesting of newer documents is all done automatically by the browser. There are META tags that you can put into web html that refresh the page but not all browsers obey -- if what u want is a javascript to reload the page from the server here it is...

location.reload(TRUE);

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