Changing and reloading included .js files

[jodleren]

Hi

I just came a problem with JS on a site - I updated my .js file for
the site, it is included as follows:

<link rel="stylesheet " href="whatever. css" type="text/css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="whatever.j s"></script>

Problem: IE does not automatically reload the .js file (nor .css) but
uses a cached version - which caused the site to fail this morning.
I know users have to press F5 to reload, but is there a way to _force_
reload, so¨my (stupid) users do not have too?

WBR
Sonnich

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: Changing and reloading included .js files

jodleren wrote:

I just came a problem with JS on a site - I updated my .js file for
the site, it is included as follows:
>
<link rel="stylesheet " href="whatever. css" type="text/css">

Your stylesheet is irrelevant here. A stylesheet is not a script (at least
not in non-NN4).

<script type="text/javascript" src="whatever.j s"></script>
>
Problem: IE does not automatically reload the .js file (nor .css) but
uses a cached version - which caused the site to fail this morning.
I know users have to press F5 to reload, but is there a way to _force_
reload, so¨my (stupid) users do not have too?

http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/

Despite statements to the contrary, this works also with non-Apache servers.


PointedEars
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