I'm currently building a website that uses AJAX to dynamically update sections of the page without the need to refresh, however, when I change aspects of the file that AJAX reads the website sometimes takes minutes to update even though the file is read about once per second. Whilst looking for the issue I found that I can turn caching off by using the developer tools and this then allowed the website to update at the appropriate speed.
Here's the code I am using:
var path = "Path of the json file i am reading"
var state;
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
state = JSON.parse(this.responseText);
}
};
xhttp.open("GET", path, true);
xhttp.send();
I've been looking for a while now and the only advice I can see about what to do about the cache is to use the developer tools to turn it off. Is there any way I can implement some code to automatically tell the browser to not cache the file being read?
