Cant stop Browser Caching

Anon

i am having serious problems with browser caching i want to display my flash movie which is a poll and it differs everything. But i cant stop my browser from caching the PHP and de flash(SWF) File. Here is the html code of voteflash.php(?id=1):

<? header ("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); // Date in the past
header ("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT"); // always modified
header ("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate"); // HTTP/1.1
header ("Pragma: no-cache"); ?>

<HEAD>

<TITLE> Voteflash </TITLE>

</HEAD>

<OBJECT classid="clsid😃27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"

codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0"

WIDTH=640 HEIGHT=55>

<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="voteflash.swf?id=<? echo "$id"; ?>"> <PARAM NAME=menu VALUE=false> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=best> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#CCCCCC> <EMBED src="voteflash.swf?id=<? echo "$id"; ?>" menu=false quality=best bgcolor=#CCCCCC WIDTH=640 HEIGHT=55 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED>

</OBJECT>

</BODY>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1">
</HEAD>

as u can see i tried everything.
PLZ help me

Thriver

Anon

differs everytime i mean 🙂

khaine

What you need to do is cheat. On the page that class/create a link to the page with the flash file on make it tag a random number on the href i.e. a header redirect would be header("location: voteflash.php?id=1&uid=".uniqid("PHP")); and a link would be <A href="voteflash.php?id=1&uid=<? echo uniqid("PHP"); ?>">click me</A>. this will make the browser think that each page is a new page because of the uniqid and it wont cache the page.

Mark.

Anon

Tnx mate, i think this will work but i found out that the page that the flash retrieves its information from like the name of the image wasnt uncacheable so i entered here the meta-tags and it worked! but tnx for ur help anyway. Check out the site(when its finished) http://www.crazymail.tk (its a Dutch page but the menu is english 😛)
if u wanna see the vote(because the rest isnt ready yet) go to this page: http://www.multimania.com/crazymeel/flashvote.php?id=1

greetz ThrIver