Re: [Xsltforms-support] Two questions: about success and failure of PUT, and about cache invalidation

[C. M. Sperberg-M. <cm...@bl...>]

On Feb 22, 2013, at 11:07 AM, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote:

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> On Feb 22, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Alain Couthures wrote:
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>> ...
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>>> My question about evading an over-enthusiastic cache remains an open question. 
>> This is a well-known XMLHttpRequest issue and many developers just add a dummy parameter, such as the current date and time, to the HTTP request filename so the browser always consider it different.
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> 
> Brilliant.  Thank you, that should work.  I'll do that right now.
> 

For the record, I also found another way that works in my situation.  The server
for this project is running Apache, and I was able to persuade Apache to
set the Expires header by putting the following into an .htaccess file in
a directory located above all the documents where stale copies were
causing us harm:

ExpiresActive on
ExpiresDefault "access plus 60 seconds"

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