[flashpro] caching

Timo Stamm t.stamm at macnews.de
Fri Mar 11 16:08:08 EST 2005


Flash does not cache at all.

But if you have a swf running in the browser, all requests will be 
routed through the browser.

This means that the browsers cache will eventually catch requests and 
return the cached version of a file.

You can _always_ circumvent caching by using unique URLs, for example by 
appending a random variable to the query: 
http://abc.org/file.swf?random=12235234

You can not rely on the cache. It is depending on browser settings and 
the capability of the webserver to cope with conditional requests.


HTH,
Timo


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