[ACCEPTED]-Forcing cache expiration from a JavaScript file-caching
In short... no.
You can add something to 4 the end of the source address of the script 3 tag. Browsers will treat this as a different 2 file to the one they have currently cached.
<script src="/js/something.js?version=2"></script>
Not 1 sure about your other options.
In HTML5 you can use Application Cache, that 14 way you can control when the cache should 13 expire
You need to add the path to the manifest
<!DOCTYPE HTML><html manifest="demo.appcache">
In 12 your demo.appcache file you can just place 11 each file that you want to cache
CACHE MANIFEST
# 2013-01-01 v1.0.0
/myjsfile.js
When you 10 want the browser to download a new file 9 you can update the manifest
CACHE MANIFEST
# 2013-02-01 v1.0.1
/myjsfile.js
Just be sure 8 to modify the cache manifest with the publish 7 date or the version (or something else) that 6 way when the browser sees that the manifest 5 has change it will download all files in 4 it.
If the manifest is not change, the browser 3 will not update the local file, even if 2 that file was modify on the server.
For further 1 information please take a look at HTML5 Application Cache
You could add a dummy parameter to your 9 URLs
<script src='oldscriptname.js?foo=bar'></script>
[e: f; b]
The main problem is that if 8 you set up the expiration with a simple 7 "Expires" header, then the browsers that 6 have the file cached won't even bother to 5 contact you for it. Even if there were a 4 way for the script to whack the browser 3 in the head and clear the cache, your old 2 script doesn't do that, so you have no way to get that 1 functionality out to the clients.
You can force to reload an cacheated document 3 with on javascript:
window.location.reload(true);
The true command indicate 2 the browser must to reload the page without 1 cache.
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