Re: XmlHttpRequest not loading latest version of xml
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Re: XmlHttpRequest not loading latest version of xml

From: Matt Silberstein <RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed Nov 30 2005 - 22:25:16 CET

On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:14:27 -0500, in comp.lang.javascript , Randy
Webb <HikksNotAtHome@aol.com> in
<KvmdnXqunPubiRPenZ2dnUVZ_sSdnZ2d@comcast.com> wrote:

>Matt Silberstein said the following on 11/30/2005 2:07 PM:
>> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:44:41 GMT, in comp.lang.javascript ,
>> jim@jibbering.com (Jim Ley) in
>> <438df2fd.553357956@news.individual.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:16:35 GMT, Matt Silberstein
>>><RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>One issue that concerns me is that it is the server that knows if the
>>>>data is old, not the client. Making client side determinations is
>>>>non-optimal.
>>>
>>>but if the client doesn't make a request, the server isn't involved...
>>
>>
>> And then we are taking about a very simple piece of code.
>>
>
>Yes, and we keep telling you what and how to do it. Add a unique
>querystring to the URL. Then it will be retrieved from the server or not
>at all.

You missed my point. Jim said that the client was not making a
request. If the client makes no request, then it can't add a
querystring, can it? I must have misunderstood his point somehow.

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Received on Sat Dec 3 04:34:04 2005