javascript random string to put on url for cache
I was having a bit of a cache issue with a external css file, so i thought i might fix this by appending a random query string to the file name. This should force the browser to recheck the file each load time rather than caching it as it will think its a new file name.
There are a few options in javascript that can achieve this.
Note: This one is not solved yet, got distracted... ;)
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<!-- <link rel="stylesheet" href="theme.css" /> -->Javascript
/* you could append a new date string to json */
var random_string = (new Date).toJSON();
console.log(random_string);
/* you could then md5 that if you want something more cryptic */
/* var random_string_2 = crypto.createHash('md5').update((new Date).toJSON());
console.log(random_string_2); */
/* actually that one does not work, (not sure what the crypto js library is... )*/View Statistics
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"Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children."
I just checked google books for BFG, and the dedication is there.
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/quybcXrFhCIC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Roald Dahl, 1986
