Prevent browser caching of AJAX call result

Question

It looks like if I load dynamic content using $.get(), the result is cached in browser.

Adding some random string in QueryString seems to solve this iss

Answer 1

For those of you using the cache option of $.ajaxSetup() on mobile Safari, it appears that you may have to use a timestamp for POSTs, since mobile Safari caches that too. According to the documentation on $.ajax() (which you are directed to from $.ajaxSetup()):

Setting cache to false will only work correctly with HEAD and GET requests. It works by appending "_={timestamp}" to the GET parameters. The parameter is not needed for other types of requests, except in IE8 when a POST is made to a URL that has already been requested by a GET.

So setting that option alone won't help you in the case I mentioned above.