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flashcaching
Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 349

Load fresh swf from server

I have a main flash from wich i load another swf file from the server. From time to time i change the second swf file and want to load a fresh copy from the server. I clean the cache from the browser but my client does not know how to do that and it's a pain to give him directions. If i want to load a fresh copy of the main swf i just add a "main.swf?version2" but i can't do that with the loadMovie function in flash.

Any ideas how i can get a fresh copy from the server without changing the name of the file?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 636

Answers (3)

mvasilkov
mvasilkov

Reputation:

You need to serve the second .swf with headers that prohibit caching. There are quite a number of ways to do it, depending on your web server.

Upvotes: 0

Andy Jacobs
Andy Jacobs

Reputation: 15245

i always use a random number

main.swf?version=Math.random()

Upvotes: 1

evilpenguin
evilpenguin

Reputation: 5478

You could try the following:

<meta http-equiv="expires" value="Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:00:00 GMT" />
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" />

In the html page that embeds the file.

Upvotes: 0

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