Cache Busting

[abraxas]

Hi There,
I was reading a posting here on the concept of forcing browsers to refresh (browser busting) images after upload by using a unique identifier like time.
I was wondering if a form

form method=post and action=myscript.pl?time()

input type=hidden Value=Blah
</form>

statement in HTML would interfere with form input items eg hidden, that I want POST'd. I would experiment but I'm not around my system for a while.
Thank you
Regards
abraxas

 

[bardley]

Haven't done this in Perl, but in PHP I send headers that prevent browsers from caching pages. The header contains:

Pragma: no-cache (for http 1.0)
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate (for 1.1)

If it's possible in PHP, I'm sure that TMTOWTDI in Perl! Brad Gunsalus
Cymtec Systems, Inc.
bgunsalus@cymtec.com

 

[abraxas]

Thanks Brad,
But no good. I still need to F5 the screen once the script has displayed results.

What i want to do is some how put the time as a parameter to the script even though the script will not pick it up and use it. With a changing URL (slightly), the browser has no option but to refresh. I assume it has to be done in javascript so I've been haunting their forum.

Am I explaining this well? A nightmare pastime is to build a site and go around to crappy internet cafes and have a look at it. Very surprising with things crashing here and there. I remember a visit to a government site where there.

Thanks again for the help
abraxas

 

[bardley]

Maybe:

<META HTTP-EQUIV=&quot;Refresh&quot; CONTENT=&quot;n&quot;>

where n is the number of seconds you wish to display that page.

This will refresh a page continuously unless you tell it to stop.

Sorry if this isn't what you're looking for either!! (-: Brad Gunsalus
Cymtec Systems, Inc.
bgunsalus@cymtec.com

 

[abraxas]

Cheers Brad but that was the first thing I tried. I even had a URL= pointing to the same script. That was pretty to watch. Not functional though. I think the
&quot;script.pl?something_random&quot; is my only hope (Obi Wan Kenobi). This problem only occurs on some browser configurations.

I do appreiciate the great advice I get from here.

thanks to all
abraxas