Prevent browser from caching AJAX requests

Question

I\'ve setup an app and it works fantastic on Opera and Firefox, but on Google Chrome it caches the AJAX request and will give stale data!

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Answer 1

I was using jQuery ajax request when I ran into this problem.

According to jQuery API adding "cache: false" adds a timestamp like explained in the accepted answer:

This only works with GET and HEAD requests though but if you're using POST the browser doesn't cache your ajax request anyways. There's a but for IE8, check it out in the link if needed.

$.ajax({ 
type: "GET",
cache: false, 
});