Refreshing in flash

[accsys]

Hi,

We have a customer who is developing a flash site and is having a few problems. Not knowing flash myself I thought I'd ask here.

As I understand it he has an index.html file which has an embedded swf file within it.

When he browses the web page, it works fine. However, if he updates the swf file and uploads it, the old flash file is still displayed when he browses to the site again.

This is not just happening on his machine, it's happening on all of his customers' machines as well. He's trying to blame the web server configuration but I'm thinking it's just an IE cache problem.

Anyone had this problem and found a way around it?

Thanks,

Tobie.

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

Access the flash file like this:

http://www.domain.com/flashfile.swf?blah=randomjunk245453

This will cause a redownload of the flash file to refresh the cache.

[accsys]

Problem solved - Thanks very much!

[RFH Reseller: Sol]

You should download the IE Developer Toolbar

This allows you to disable the cache amongst other things.

[RFH Reseller: nick]

You should download the IE Developer Toolbar

Or indeed the Firefox web developer toolbar - you'll find a clear cache option under 'miscellaneous'.

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

You should download the IE Developer Toolbar

This allows you to disable the cache amongst other things.

WOW - I have never seen that before!! I use HTTPWatch for diagnosing problems, but a MS tool is pretty cool

[RFH Reseller: Mark Voss]

Or indeed the Firefox web developer toolbar - you'll find a clear cache option under 'miscellaneous'.

Didn't know this existed!
Thanks Nick - it's really useful

[RFH Reseller: nick]

it's really useful

You're not wrong there, I don't know what I'd do without the developer toolbar.
View Render Source Chart is another nice FF extension I use quite a lot.

[RFH Reseller: Mark Voss]

That looks usful too - especially for debugging other people's code!