[removed] url containing random number

Question

A friend is linking my page from his site. As I need users to avoid caching when visiting my page, I want the url to have this form:

http://www.mypage.com/index.php?

Answer 1

I would add a parameter but you can leave it out if needed:

var url = "http://www.mypage.com/index.php?rnd="+Math.random()

or

var url = "http://www.mypage.com/index.php?rnd="+new Date().getTime()

Link:

Mostly random

Note that if you have more than one assignment - for example in a loop, you need to add to the getTime since an iteration of the loop is faster than a millisecond:

var rnd = new Date().getTime();
for (var i=0;i

UPDATE to use the URL constructor with searchParams

const addRnd = urls => {
  let rnd = new Date().getTime();
  return urls.map((urlStr,i) => {
    let url = new URL(urlStr);
    url.searchParams.set("rnd",rnd+i);  // in case called multiple times
    return url;
  });
};
const urls = addRnd( ["http://www.mypage.com/index1.php","http://www.mypage.com/index2.php","http://www.mypage.com/index3.php"])
console.log(urls)