window.location.reload(true);

While working on legacy apps, you might occasionally find that a developer has written a function to reload the existing page. I’ve found that in many cases, the optional javascript argument is neglected in this case and thus the ‘cached’ copy of the page is presented, often showing stale or invalid data. The solution here is simple, always specify ‘true’ to force the page to be requested from the server.


<script type="text/javascript">
window.location.reload(true);//NOTE: 'true' forces NON-cached copy to be returned
</script>

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