[Dan Man]

Hi

I have a flash player that cycles through images. It can be seen here:

http://www.rapforums.com

This player reads from an XML file that indicates the image locations.

I've noticed that when I upload the XML file after changes, the browser will use the old cached version. If i go straight to the XML file's url and refresh it, everything works as expected. This is the same with images uploaded with the same name.

I don't want the users of the site to manually refresh their cache (obviously). Is there any thing I can do from either the Flash or server side scripting to solve this?

I am using PHP and have access to the .fla and .as files (although I am not a flash developer - I hired someone to make the player)

Thanks!

[Dan Man]

Since no one has responded, let me rephrase my problem in a simpler fashion....

How can you ensure that up-to-date content will be displayed with a flash player that shows images who's locations are read from an one XML file with a constant file name (the XML file's name never changes)?

[Nico]

You could use .htaccess to send some specific cache-control headers for .xml files.

Code:

<FilesMatch "\.xml$">
Header set Cache-Control "no-cache"
Header set Pragma "no-cache"
Header set Expires "-1"
</FilesMatch>

Save this as ".htaccess" (or add it to your existing .htaccess file if you have one already) in your root directory.

[Dan Man]

great! The XML file was the biggest concern. Thanks for the help Nico