Question

I have a javascript file which is called in the head tags of my document, and every say 30 seconds, I would want this javascript file to reload.

I have done some research into this, and it seems like there’s issues with it pulling a locally stored copy of the file, or cross browser issues…

Pulling it from the cache is not a problem, since the actual file is not changing it just needs to be reloaded.

Would this be an ajax task?
How would I go about doing this?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

function foo(){
    $.getScript( url, function(script, textStatus, jqXHR){
        script...
    });
}

setInterval(foo, 30000);

Caching Responses

Be default, $.getScript() sets the cache setting to false. This appends a timestamped query parameter to the request URL to ensure that the browser downloads the script each time it is requested.