flash externalInterface and ajax, old xml loads not new

[chopficaro]

I've used a flash ExternalInterface.call for an onclick flash event to load some xml with XMLHttpRequest. the xml loads. but if i change the xml file on the server, the old xml file loads for the client, not the new one. i believe the problem is that the browsers are caching the results. i heard that this could usually be fixed by returning false from ur JavaScript onclick handler. but i dont have a JavaScript onclick handler, i have a flash onclick handler.

 

[vicvirk]

Is there anyway you can add a parameter to the end of the call to the xml file?

I remember years ago I built a site using classic asp and we had a similar issue with old CSS files being loaded - whenever we updated the css, the old one was still cached, so to get around it we did this:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="default.css[COLOR=red]?a=<%=now%>"[/color] />

Essentially, a the css would get re-loaded as the file name was "different" - once we were finished development and put the code into production, we took out the parameter and let the browser do it's own thing with caching.




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[chopficaro]

interesting, i wouldn't know how to do that though

 

[chopficaro]

someone said i need to generate the xml on the fly with php. i know some php but im a little confused. i think hes saying

myajax.open("GET", "myresults.php", true); ????

what would myresults.php look like?

 

[vicvirk]

here's a simple one:

<?php
header('Content-type: text/xml; charset = ISO-8859-1');

$xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\"?>\n";
$xml .= "<continent name=\"north_america\">\n";
$xml .= "<country>Canada</country>\n";
$xml .= "<country>USA</country>\n";
$xml .= "<country>Mexico</country>\n";
$xml .= "</continent>\n";

echo $xml;
?>

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[tsuji]

>myajax.open("GET", "myresults.php", true);
Add to query something quite different each time, such as this.
[tt]myajax.open("GET", "myresults.php"[blue]+"?"+(new Date()).getTime()[/blue], true); [/tt]

 

[chopficaro]

>myajax.open("GET", "myresults.php", true);
Add to query something quite different each time, such as this.
myajax.open("GET", "myresults.php"+"?"+(new Date()).getTime(), true);

people keep telling me this but i dont understand! i dont have 1 file for every time of the day! i only have myresults.xml i dont have myresults.xml54353 and myresults.xml43242! how will it find my file when theres extra stuff at the end of the name???

 

[tsuji]

That is one possible realization. You have one file myresults.php and that is exactly the point. You have not or even are not in a position to execute the line?

 

[chopficaro]

ok i got it now, the other guys forget to tell me about the +"?"+ between the name and the number

xhr.open("GET", lableText + ".xml"+"?"+(new Date()).getTime(), true);

 

[chopficaro]

TY!