I'm created this class to fetch a file from web to check for new version using Ajax. This code run on a Windows gadget, on IE8. But I'm having trouble because of the cache. Is there a way to fix this Ajax class to disable cache?
PS: I don't use any library or frameworks.
var ClassAjax = function() {
this.data = null;
var that = this;
this.get = function(url, send) {
var ajax = new function ObjAjax() {
try{ return new XMLHttpRequest(); }
catch(e){try{ return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); }
catch(e){ return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); }}
return null;
}
ajax.onreadystatechange = function() {
if(ajax.readyState == 1) { that.onLoading(); }
if(ajax.readyState == 4) { that.data=ajax.responseText; that.onCompleted(that.data); }
}
ajax.open("GET", url, true);
ajax.send(send);
};
this.onLoading = function() {
//function called when connection was opened
};
this.onCompleted = function(data) {
//function called when download was completed
};
}
var request = new ClassAjax();
request.onCompleted = function(data) { alert(data); }
request.get('http://exemple.com/lastversion.html', null);
You can pass the current timestamp as a variable in the url, like this :
var timestamp = new Date().getTime();
ajax.open("GET", url+'?ts='+timestamp, true);
Also, you can force the page to be reloaded on server-side, using the proper headers