Forcing a web page not to cache

[Goshzilla]

Anyone know the tag/meta command to do this. I have a webcam page that refreshes every minute but sometimes the cached page won't update since a local copy exists. ANyone know a way around this.

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--Dann
Go soak your big fat head-- Attack of the Giant Leeches

 

[moonsee]

well
i had a similar issue
and since all i was doing was needing the actual image to refresh i used the following......

<script language='javascript'>
<!-- preload -->

function MakeArray(n) {
this.length = n
for (var i = 1; i<=n; i++) {
this = new Image()
}
return this
}

pictures = new MakeArray(1)

pictures[1].src = "http:/foo.com/bar.jpg"

function replace_pic(place) {
if (document.images) {
counter1 = document.images.length - 1
for (i=1; i<=counter1; i++) {
if (document.images.name == place) {
document.images.src = pictures[place].src
i = counter1
}
}
}


<!-- end preload -->
}

</script>



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[Ace]

The meta tags for disabling cache on a web page are :

<META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="Wed, 20 Feb 2000 08:30:00 GMT">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">

Just in case your not sure the

<META http-equiv="Refresh" content="60; url=http://yourdomain.com">

Will refreash the page for you every 60 seconds.


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I think ...

 

[JHowse]

Cool. Thanks for the code and HTML samples.

Could come in handy for dev activities, in the future.

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[Goshzilla]

Ah, so the page expires in the past.

Any reason to choosing Feb 2000 or did you just pick a date.

Anyhow, mucho thanks for the code.

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--Dann
Go soak your big fat head-- Attack of the Giant Leeches

 

[Ace]

No real reason any date in the past will work just fine.

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Jedi mind tricks don't work on me....
I think ...