Question

I’m doing a little bit of ajax where I get a static html file that is actually changed on the disk from time to time. Of course IE has a problem where it wants to help out by caching the file which I don’t want. I know how to fix this when grabbing a dynamic file: you just change the header in the dynamic file. But how do I do this for the static html file? Note that I am using apache.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you can use mod_expires as Marcel suggested, you can always append a random request parameter.

For example, instead of requesting static_file.html you can request static_file.html?_=1231231231 and change that request parameter every time.

jQuery has a really simple way of doing this:

$.ajax({cache: false, url: static_file.html});