Force Browser to reload flash

[music_lp90]

Hi, I need to get IE to reload my swf every time the page is accessed. Firefox reloads it fine, but IE only reloads the swf if I open the page in a new window each time.I've tried this:

<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"><meta http-equiv="Cache-control" content="no-cache"><meta http-equiv="Cache-control" content="must-revalidate"><meta http-equiv="Cache-control" content="max-age=0">

and this:

<?php header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate"); // HTTP/1.1 header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); // Date in the past ?>

But it doesn't seem to work.Thanks for any help!

[justsomeguy]

Add a random value to the URL for the SWF, like as a querystring parameter.

[music_lp90]

That doesn't seem to work, unless I'm not doing it correctly.Here's what I did:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" width="800" height="1600" id="planCreator_Resize" align="middle"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" /><param name="movie" value="planCreator_Resize.swf?reload=<?php echo time(); ?>" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="scale" value="noscale" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#006633" />	<embed src="planCreator_Resize.swf?reload=<?php echo time(); ?>" quality="high" scale="noscale" bgcolor="#006633" width="800" height="1600" name="planCreator_Resize" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></object>

Thanks for your help.

[justsomeguy]

That should work, unless the HTML is getting cached and it's reading the old filename.

[music_lp90]

Maybe it's not the flash that needs to reload then. Maybe it needs to reload the xml document that flash is getting the saved data from. Would IE be caching the xml file?

[justsomeguy]

I'm not sure, it might be.

[music_lp90]

Okay, that was the problem. It was the xml, not the swf.So, this fixed it:my_xml.load("testFile.xml?cachebuster=" + new Date().getTime());Thanks for the help.