How To Prevent Cache For The Webview?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Does anyone know by code or the web page code to prevent the webView control from saving cache? I have tried all of the meta tags and none of them work.

Thanks!

Warren

#2

Yea, add a random number on the end of the URL with a query string.   Let’s say your accessing:

    http://google.com

then make the URL:

    http://google.com?cachebust=somerandomnumber

If you already have a query string in place:

    http://somesinte.com/login.php?username=fred&password=barney

then you would need to use another & to add it:

    http://somesinte.com/login.php?username=fred&password=barney&cachebust=somerandomnumber

#3

Thanks. I tried it and that did the trick! For some reason at times the webView control is blank when going to the page and I need to refresh it to get the page to show. It doesn’t do that now but just in case, I put a timer with delay in there to request the same page one second later as a backup which is like a refresh.

Warren

#4

Yea, add a random number on the end of the URL with a query string.   Let’s say your accessing:

    http://google.com

then make the URL:

    http://google.com?cachebust=somerandomnumber

If you already have a query string in place:

    http://somesinte.com/login.php?username=fred&password=barney

then you would need to use another & to add it:

    http://somesinte.com/login.php?username=fred&password=barney&cachebust=somerandomnumber

#5

Thanks. I tried it and that did the trick! For some reason at times the webView control is blank when going to the page and I need to refresh it to get the page to show. It doesn’t do that now but just in case, I put a timer with delay in there to request the same page one second later as a backup which is like a refresh.

Warren