i know you resolve your problem but It wont be easy if you delete from
the dom the <img /> tag storing the actual images then... create new
new Images() append to the div and finally add a query "cheat" link???
just a shot...

best
ncubica...

On 29 sep, 13:28, Phil Petree <phil.pet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I didnt address the caching because I had to look to see if I could find
> where I had saved this link off the last time I had this problem... found
> it!
>
> The caching is probably on the browser side, not the server side.  Setting
> the server side cache variables will only affect the page reload.
>
> The browser knows better than to cache on refresh/reload BUT technically, to
> the browser, you are not reloading and since the image has the same name it
> doesn't really know that you need a refresh.
>
> This guy had a solution that worked for me:http://www.irt.org/script/416.htm
>
> I have also used the cheap trick of adding a random query string on to the
> end of the image 
> url:http://www.somedomain.com/images/newname.jpg?id=random_numberand since 
> this
> will always generate a new url, the browser will refresh the image.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Phil Petree <phil.pet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is an interesting problem... my first reaction is that you'd want
> > to use onComplete to update the div's instead of onSuccess.
>
> > Test this with a couple of alerts and see which one gets called first and
> > which is last (just as onCreate is the first call, onComplete is the last).
>
> > To my way if thinking, if you wait until onComplete gets triggered before
> > you do any UI updates, all the images on the server should be properly in
> > place.
>
> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Richard Quadling 
> > <rquadl...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >> On 29 September 2011 16:58, Chris Sansom <ch...@highway57.co.uk> wrote:
> >> > On 29 Sep 2011, at 15:51, Richard Quadling wrote:
>
> >> >> Does ALL the JS work take place inside the onSuccess callback?
>
> >> >> The "Back in JS" bit has to be part of the onSuccess callback
> >> >> otherwise it will happen out of sequence. The A in AJAX is potentially
> >> >> the hiccough here.
>
> >> > That's what I suspected but yes, all the 'back in JS' stuff does indeed
> >> happen in the onSuccess. (I also tried onComplete, but got the same 
> >> result.)
> >> I think the problem may be that the div, inevitably, is replaced right at
> >> the end of the process (at the end of the onSuccess), and only then is the
> >> offending <img> tag unleashed, calling either the image itself or my little
> >> php script... but then I'd have thought preloading it might help, but it
> >> doesn’t seem to. I also tried loading it via a php exec() call to the image
> >> script in advance of returning the output string to JS, but that didn’t
> >> help.
>
> >> > What also convinces me that you're right about the A in AJAX is that
> >> when, for testing, I put a sleep(5) in the image script - which should hold
> >> it up by a whole 5 seconds - the div is still replaced immediately. When I
> >> first load the page (which also calls this script), I get a broken image
> >> icon where the image should have been, replaced after 5 seconds by the
> >> image, but when the div is replaced by the ajax call that doesn’t happen - 
> >> I
> >> just get no change of image as before.
>
> >> > It really would be /so/ nice if I could get this working! It's for a
> >> password-protected CMS, so the world at large will never get the benefit,
> >> and I could simply reload the whole page instead of just the one div, but
> >> it's become a challenge!
>
> >> Create a test case where it goes wrong. Write new clean code that
> >> doesn't want/need/use anything from the main project.
>
> >> At best, this will be a small HTML page with some divs and images, a
> >> JS file to allow the onclick to fire the AJAX code, along with the
> >> onsuccess and the server side code to handle the request and to return
> >> the new HTML markup.
>
> >> Without seeing the server and client side code, you are going to be
> >> stuck with a limited level of support.
>
> >> If you can't reduce the problem to something that can be read, I doubt
> >> anyone can realistically provide any more ideas on this.
>
> >> --
> >> Richard Quadling
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