Lets say I have an application that updates it javascript/css files (and keeps the same file names)
How can you force a client to not serve files from cache and use the new javascript/css. I have a feeling a bug is being caused by this. I still want the files to cache, so appending a random string to the css/js include will NOT be good.
Append the date the file was changed to the CSS/JS file request. Many frameworks can do this for you, depending on your technology stack.