290929 - firefox does not check to to see if the current xml file is newer than the info stored in the chache.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect)

Description

[raymond]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

the swf at www.raymondselzer.com/portfolio/ calls an xml file on the same
server, however if the xml file is updated changes cannot be seen in the swf
until the cache is cleared. 

this is not a problem with any other type of text file.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. add an update to the xml file
2. refresh the main page
Actual Results:  
changes to the xml file did not appear in the swf

Expected Results:  
showed the changes made to the xml file

this problem only seems to occur with xml files txt files and any custom
extension of a txt file is refreshed fine every time.

Comment 1

[Zook Valem]

Since Flash (swf) is a both client-side and server-side application and is sort
of a gateway between firefox and the internet.  Since your comment said Flash
(swf) access the xml then firefox doesn't need to access the xml file for that
since Flash (swf) would do it for us.  It could be as result of a programming
error or something in Flash (swf).

If that's not what you meant then can you clarify it?

Comment 2

[Zook Valem]

Another thought came to my mind, does the flash applet (swf) reload upon refreshing?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Darin Fisher]

So, I believe that flash uses Mozilla's HTTP stack to access resources off the
internet.  That means that Mozilla's cache could possibly be in the loop here. 
I'd like to see a HTTP log if someone could please generate one.  Instructions here:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/http-debugging.html

Thanks!

Comment 5

[Darin Fisher]

-> default owner

Comment 6

[Gary Dale]

The bug may be old but I'm still experiencing it (31.4.0). It drove me crazy trying to figure out why a web site update wasn't working.

I updated an xml file that controlled a javascript slide show. It worked locally but when I posted the update, the old slide show would still show. Days later the change still wasn't showing up in Firefox but was in other browsers. I had to manually clear Firefox's cache to get the update to show.

I'm running Debian/Jessie on an AMD64 machine.

Comment 7

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

the xml needs to be served with the appropriate http caching info (expires, cache-control, etc..)