1073434 - Checking disable cache in web developer tool still cache AJAX resources

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1027579

(DevTools :: General, defect)

Description

[dvhh]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
Build ID: 20140924083558

Steps to reproduce:

Using the developer tool > Toolbox Options > Advanced settings > Enable "Disable Cache"

Having a webpage using jquery to use a xmlHttpRequest shorthand for a get request on a text file (the resource is set to expire in now+1 days later).
Reload the page


Actual results:

Every resource is reloaded except for the text file which was loaded. the text file is loaded from cache.


Expected results:

the text file should be loaded from the server again when the "Disable Cache" option is enabled. 
I have to clear the cache via the appropriate dialog.

Comment 1

[dvhh]

example of the issue
http://jsfiddle.net/s9g0cyvx/

Comment 2

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

Mike, is platform work needed to control this, or would it be easy to change?

Comment 3

[Mike Ratcliffe [:miker] [:mratcliffe] [:mikeratcliffe]]

(In reply to J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] from comment #2)
> Mike, is platform work needed to control this, or would it be easy to change?

Why, are you volunteering?

Our disable cache flags only disable the cache until the document load. This means that ajax requests, fonts etc. will completely ignore the disable cache setting.

Anyhow, this is a duplicate of bug 1027579 which has been re-purposed for creating a more appropriate flag.