Preventing XML Caching - tried the obvious

[eggler]

Darn-ed XML is caching in my browser(s). There's been a random string added to both the XML file pointer in the actionscript and a random string added to the swf location in the html.

var XML_URL:String = "xmls/projects.xml?cacheisbad=" +Math.random();

Firebug says everything is being called correctly with the random string attached. XML view by itself in the browser has been updated.

I thought it might be some strange SWFObject thingie, but the XML still caches if I bring up the swf directly from the url without embedding it.

If I try on a different network the xml is also cached! (But if I view the xml in the browser it has been updated.)

Any thoughts?

[cancerinform]

Adding a string to the URL only works for browsers.

[eggler]

Do you mean how I tested if it was the javascript (SWFObject) is pointless? Or that there is a better way to prevent the XML from caching?

Hmm, once I changed the name of project.xml on the server (and subsequent reference to it in the actionscript) my problems went away. Must have been the server doing something strange?

[cancerinform]

All what I was saying is that preventing to cache the XML works only with a movie in a browser by adding something unique to the XML name.