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Re: IE cgi caching

by gryphon (Abbot)
on Aug 16, 2005 at 02:10 UTC ( [id://484045]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to IE cgi caching

Greetings Anonymous Monk,

What !1 referenced looks very cool and is a much better option than my idea, but for completeness: What has worked for me in the past is to specify some throw-away query parameter that is always changing. For example:

my $url = 'yourscript.cgi?data=realdata&ignore=' . time . rand # Then feed $url to links in refering pages

Every time you click a link from a refering page (which itself has to be a script because it generates the random URL), you get a new unique URL for which IE has no cache. Just ignore the ignore parameter. It's hokey; it's stupid; it's a hack, but it has the value of working.

gryphon
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