216174 - When reloading a page containing flash the flash files don't get reloaded

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.5a; MultiZilla v1.5.0.0f) Gecko/20030718
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.5a; MultiZilla v1.5.0.0f) Gecko/20030718

I'm developing a site with some Flash on it. When reloading the page to see the
changes made in flash the flash files don't get reloaded and thus I don't see
the changes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load a page with some flash
2. change the flash files on the server
3. reload the page

Actual Results:  
The flash files weren't reloaded

Expected Results:  
The flash-files should have been reloaded

I'm using the classic theme. 
The OS is Windows 2003 Server beta

Comment 1

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

Reporter: what is your browser cache settings ? Have you tried force-reloading
(Ctrl+F5 or Ctrl+Shift+R, IIRC) ? Is it possible the server is sending some
headers that force the flash to be cached ?

Also, your build is almost a month old, could you try this using a recent
nightly ? Thank you.

Comment 2

[Michael]

I did download the build the same day I reported the error.
The page isn't sending any special header because I tried the same with IE and
didn't have any problems.
I did F5, ctrl+F5 and didn't succed. 

Will do further testing this afternoon.

Comment 3

[John Coonrod]

I see exactly the same problem with 1.5RC2, and it's really annoying - no good
way to update swf files and have them reload. The html reloads, but not the swf
file.

Comment 4

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

Reporter: could you try this again using a recent nightly build from
<http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/latest/> ? Thanks.

Comment 5

[Michael Lefevre]

no response, resolving.

reporter - if you can reproduce this with a current build, please reopen and
comment again with details.  an example page where it doesn't work would be
helpful, so we know we're looking at the same thing and can see server headers etc