Not sure what to do.....can I run this by you guys?

Mike Bonner bonnmike at gmail.com
Fri Mar 16 11:31:17 EDT 2018 

Yeah, thats what I was talking about, but I never tried it with safari i'm
afraid. Sounds like something funky with safari, though i'm not sure why my
method wouldn't work unless safari is smart enough now to recognize an
inline link and NOT treat it as a new URL to cache.

If this is only for your personal use, you can disable caching on safari as
described here: https://www.technipages.com/apple-safari-completely-
disable-cache
If you have safari 11, check here instead to disable cache:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46324675/how-do-
i-disable-cache-in-safari-11-0

If this is for an app being shipped though thats not a solution.  You said
firefox works fine, so i'm guessing you don't have some type of caching
proxy between you and the server.  Either way, from what I've been reading
just now, rather than using meta tags, you're more likely to get the
desired result if you set the headers directly.  One way to do this would
be with an .htaccess file.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11532636/how-to-prevent-http-file-caching-in-apache-httpd-mamp
 You'd need to add .lc to the filesmatch so that they're not cached.

Hopefully the correct module is installed. If it isn't, while I've never
done it, I believe you can set the headers to return using lc in your
server script (assuming you're using lc.) I know php can.  If you're using
something other than apache of course, ignore the above.

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 8:53 AM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> I am finding that Safari is not honoring
> the meta tag to turn off caching.  I thought
> I would give your method a try.  I’m not
> sure I am doing it right though because
> that isn’t working either.
>
> (Firefox does everything properly.)
>
> I was thinking from your description that
> it would look something like:
>
> http://www.yourwebsite.com/coolpage.lc#48432 <http://www.yourwebsite.com/
> coolpage.lc#48432>
>
> Is the above example of what you are discussing
> correct?  If not could you please post an example?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick
>
> > On Mar 16, 2018, at 9:31 AM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > Another way around the cache problem is to use the #2 trick at the end of
> > the url.  Send each request with a pound and different number at the end
> of
> > the url and it'll be seen as a new request thus doing an end run around
> the
> > cache.  Since it designates an inline anchor position on the page, it
> > should have zero affect on the way the url functions.  (unless things
> have
> > changed, the associated anchor doesn't need to exist on the page)
> >
> > Thanks for the neat trick Charles. :)
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 7:24 AM, Tom Glod via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Wow....I'm impressed....thats quite a hack Charles..I will study all
> this
> >> see how far I get.....
> >>
> >> Thank you gentlemen....you are Rockstars!!
> >>
> >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 7:13 AM, Lagi Pittas via use-livecode <
> >> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Maybe not 100% reliable but ....
> >>>
> >>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1341089/using-meta-
> >>> tags-to-turn-off-caching-in-all-browsers
> >>>
> >>> Regards Lagi
> >>>
> >>> On 16 March 2018 at 09:48, Charles Warwick via use-livecode
> >>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>>> Hi Tom,
> >>>>
> >>>> If the site you are trying to contact has CORS enabled appropriately,
> >>> then you can do something like this...
> >>>>
> >>>> With the LiveCode browser widget, you can call JavaScript functions
> >> from
> >>> LC script and have the JavaScript functions call LC handlers in return.
> >>> JavaScript has the capability to perform asynchronous HTTP requests.
> >>>>
> >>>> You can create a HTML page that you automatically load up in the
> >> browser
> >>> widget that has a small JavaScript function which you can call from LC
> >> with
> >>> ‘do in widget’.   All this function needs to do is issue an
> asynchronous
> >>> HTTP call to the URL passed to it as a parameter and when it receives
> the
> >>> data, return it back to your LC script by calling a nominated LC
> handler
> >>> and passing the returned data as a parameter.
> >>>>
> >>>> The HTML page would look something like this:
> >>>>
> >>>> <html>
> >>>> <head>
> >>>> <title>Javascript Async Test</title>
> >>>> <script type="text/javascript">
> >>>>
> >>>> function httpGetAsync(theUrl)
> >>>> {
> >>>>    var xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
> >>>>    xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
> >>>>        if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4 && xmlHttp.status == 200)
> >>>>            liveCode.httpRequestComplete(theUrl,
> >> xmlHttp.responseText);
> >>>>    }
> >>>>    xmlHttp.open("GET", theUrl, true); // true for asynchronous
> >>>>    xmlHttp.send(null);
> >>>> }
> >>>> </script>
> >>>> </head>
> >>>> <body>
> >>>> </body>
> >>>> <html>
> >>>>
> >>>> You can either load that from a file into the browser widget’s URL or
> >>> set its htmlText property accordingly...
> >>>>
> >>>> Then in LC, make sure you register the httpRequestComplete handler so
> >>> that the widget can call it:
> >>>>
> >>>> set the javascriptHandlers of widget “browser” to
> “httpRequestComplete”
> >>>>
> >>>> After that, add a httpRequestComplete handler to the card script to
> >>> handle the returned data:
> >>>>
> >>>> on httpRequestComplete pUrl, pData
> >>>>   — pUrl will be the URL requested
> >>>>   — pData will be the data returned from the URL requested
> >>>> end httpRequestComplete
> >>>>
> >>>> Lastly, make your async requests....
> >>>>
> >>>> do (“httpGetAsync(‘http://www.livecode.com’);” in widget “browser”
> >>>>
> >>>> Since the JavaScript in the browser widget is issuing the requests and
> >>> sending the data back to LC, it doesn’t need to display anything
> related
> >> to
> >>> it in the browser widget itself - it can be a blank canvas.
> >>>>
> >>>> Just be aware that the browser widget can cache URLs and there is no
> >>> easy way (that I know of?) in LC to clear the browser’s cache... so if
> >> you
> >>> see very quick responses on a second or subsequent request to the same
> >> URL,
> >>> it is likely pulling it all from the browser’s cache.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>>
> >>>> Charles
> >>>>
> >>>>>> On 16 Mar 2018, at 1:35 pm, Tom Glod via use-livecode <
> >>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Great hints there Mike .... thanks alot.  Luckily I'm desktop only
> >>> right
> >>>>>> now.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> It shouldn't be too long before I sit down to make something that I
> >> can
> >>>>>> rely on and reuse in future projects.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Might turn out I will have to hire someone to help which is cool
> too.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> It only has to be very simple..and does not need to match
> performance
> >>> of
> >>>>>> Tsnet.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Anything more than 1 would be a great start. LOL.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I will look into the libURL library and then try to guess which way
> I
> >>>>>> should go my first attempt to hack this.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I'll keep you guys posted on the progress..I think I need a name for
> >>> this
> >>>>>> little project.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks you
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Tom
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