xmlhttp doesn't update

I'm using an xmlhttp request to get information from a database. Everything works fine in Firefox, and it works in IE until you try to refresh the page. If a news post (thats what it is getting from the database) is deleted it will continue to show the same information.

I can't really post all of the script because it (along with the html and php) are spread out through many different pages:


//JS
var xmlhttp;

function refreshNews()
{
xmlhttp=GetXmlHttpObject();
if (xmlhttp==null)
{
alert ("Browser does not support HTTP Request");
return;
}
var url="library/admin_processnews.php?access=1&show_news=1";
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=stateChanged;
xmlhttp.open("GET",url,true);
xmlhttp.send(null);
}

function deleteNews(id)
{
xmlhttp=GetXmlHttpObject();
if (xmlhttp==null)
{
alert ("Browser does not support HTTP Request");
return;
}
var url="library/admin_processnews.php?access=1&show_news=1&do=delete_news&delete="+id;
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=stateChanged;
xmlhttp.open("GET",url,true);
xmlhttp.send(null);
}

function stateChanged()
{
if (xmlhttp.readyState==4)
{
alert(xmlhttp.responseText);
document.getElementById("news").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
}
}

function GetXmlHttpObject()
{
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{
// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
return new XMLHttpRequest();
}
if (window.ActiveXObject)
{
// code for IE6, IE5
return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
return null;
}



//PHP
<?
require("dbconnect.php");

if($_GET['access']==1){
switch($_GET['do']){
case 'post_news':
@mysqli_query($con, 'INSERT INTO news (title, date, content) VALUES ("'.$_GET['title'].'", "'.date('m/d/Y').'", "'.$_GET['content'].'")') or die("Couldn't post announcement: ".mysqli_error());
break;
case 'delete_news':
@mysqli_query($con, "DELETE FROM news WHERE id=".$_GET['delete']) or die("Couldn't delete Announcement: ".mysqli_error());
$query = mysqli_query($con, "SELECT * FROM news ORDER BY id Desc") or die(mysql_error());
break;
default:
}
}

if($_GET['show_news']==1){
$query = mysqli_query($con, "SELECT * FROM news ORDER BY id Desc") or die(mysql_error());

while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($query)) {
if($_GET['access']==1){
echo "<h1>".$row['title']." <a href='#' onClick=deleteNews(".$row['id'].")>(Delete)</a></h1>";
}else{
echo "<h1>".$row['title']."</h1>";
}
print "<h2>".$row['date']."</h2>";
echo "<p>".$row['content']."</p>";
}
}
?>

refreshNews() is called in the onLoad event of the body in the html.

Please help :confused:

RaptorIV:

It might help if you included the "please" in the initial post.

xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=stateChanged;
xmlhttp.open("GET",url,true);
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("If-Modified-Since", "Fri, 31 Dec 1999 23:59:59 GMT");
xmlhttp.send(null);

haha, I'll remember that next time. Now it just gives me an "Unspecified Error" in IE. Works in firefox still though.

haha? I'm not amused.

http://codingforums.com/showthread.php?p=787825&highlight=cache#post787825
http://codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=142180&highlight=SetRequestHeader

Adding a setRequestHeader stops it from working on firefox and causes an error on IE. I added header information to the php page but that didn't do anything.
Still have that same problem :(

var forceGET = "?n="+ parseInt(Math.random()*999999999);
cityRequest.open("GET", "WeatherFiles/Cities.xml"+forceGET, true);
cityRequest.send(null);

Thank you!

My initial post had the setRequestHeader out of order.

You really should use that and not a random number.

I corrected my initial post.

The setRequestHeader comes after "open".

Hi all, sorry to pull up what appears to be an ancient thread, but I'm am having the same caching issue using IE. I'm not clear as how to remediate it based on the above (sorry, somewhat new to JS).
Where should setRequestHeader come in my case below (somewhat elementary I know):



var client = new XMLHttpRequest();
client.open('GET', 'http://localhost:8080/file.txt');
client.send();
var inputtxt = client.responseText;


Thanks in advance