RE: FLASH: How Do I avoid MSIE5 from cacheing an instance of a Flash Movie

[Jason Brown]

if you're on an NT server you can set an ASP directive to try and prevent

it, other than that, i've formaerly had to change the filenames every time i

make an update....


-----Original Message-----

From: Dino Micouris [

dinoglobalbeach [dot] com (mailto:dinoglobalbeach [dot] com)

]

Sent: 18 October 1999 12-52

To:

flasherchinwag [dot] com

Subject: FLASH: How Do I avoid MSIE5 from cacheing an instance of a

Flash Movie



Hi,


I've made a flash movie that imports data from an external file and a PERL

script that updates that data file and reloads the flash movie in a

different frame. The movie then creates a 'SCENE' based on the data supplied

by the file.


Everything's fine in NS4.x, but in MSIE5 the first loaded instance of the

flash movie is cached and is shown always regardless of updates to the data

file. I can overcome the problem but switching MSIE5's settings for

Temporary Files to "Check for Newer Versions Every Visit To Page" rather

than "Check Automatically", but I can't rely on this as MSIE5's default is

the latter.


I've tried everything to do with all files (updating the dates on the files,

Pragma No Cache tags, Expiry dates, creating different IDs for the page and

the movie, updating the modification date of files on the server,

EVERYTHING!) but nothing helps.


Has anyone come across this problem before, and is there a fix for it? Is

their a way that Flash allows you to empty the cache or reload the page from

scratch?


Hope someone can help before I go MAD!!!


Kind Regards


Dino Micouris

Global Beach  Ltd




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