Question

I’m trying to get a file using an Ajax call in JQuery as follows:

$.ajax({
        cache: false,
        url: "../_filters.txt",
        success: function (data) {
            filters = data;
        }

Using IE9, the first request works and returns data. Using Fiddler, the timestamp was added to the request.

However, the second request does not work. Again, according to Fiddler, the request had a different timestamp and returned status code 200, yet no data was returned.

It is as if IE is still caching the file somewhere? I’ve searched around and it seems the using cache: false is supposed to fixe the IE Ajax cache issue?

Answer 1

Figured it out, it turns out it was due to the file not being properly formatted so IE skipped over it.