IE6 'loses' javascript

Question

I have included the jQuery library in my page header using
<script type="text/javascript" src="#WORKSPACE_IMAGES#jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="#WORKSPACE_IMAGES#jquery-ui.min.js"></script>In IE6 only, if the user presses F5 to refresh the page the javascript is not kept in cache and it is not reloaded, causing any jQuery-dependent javascript to fail.
Pressing Ctrl-F5 forces the javascript to be reloaded and the page works fine. It works perfectly in Firefox.
I do not have access to store the javascript files in #IMAGE_PREFIX# and we are stuck with using IE6.
How can I either force the javascript to stay cached, or force it to be reloaded?
Cheers
RIchard

Answer 1

Hello Richard,
I recently integrated jQuery in my applications and the best solution I found was to put the files on the server using. With files on the server the browser caches them. But I shouldn't cache them if you put them in the #WORKSPACE_IMAGES#.
But unfortunately, you mentionned that you can'T put files on the server.
You can try this approch using some javascript.
var vCurDate = new Date();
var vRandomURL = "<script src='#WORKSPACE_IMAGES#jquery.min.js?random='" + vCurDate.getTime() + "' language='JavaScript'>";
vRandomURL += "<script src='#WORKSPACE_IMAGES#jquery-ui.min.js?random='" + vCurDate.getTime() + "' language='JavaScript'>";
vScriptElem = document.createElement(vRandomURL);
aHeader = document.getElementsByTagName('head');
aHeader[0].insertAdjacentElement('beforeEnd', vScriptElem);Hope it helps
Max