[Project_owners] XMLHttpRequest - how can one bypass cache?

[Axel Hecht]

Andrey Gromyko wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 21:17:24 +0100 Matthew Wilson
> <matthew at mjwilson.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
<...>
> 
> There is at least one news-feed I know which has 100+ new entries a
> day and Firefox (which, I assume, "respects the cache") doesn't fetch
> an updated xml without unless I press Shift+Reload. What would you
> say about that? (rhetorical question...)

Another non-rhetorical answer, read their terms of service.

You should definitely look at at least one example to make sure who 
would be violating the terms, you, or the user of the extension. If it's 
the user, they should have a chance to switch that behavior off.

It is a painful lesson that many folks like to stage RSS feeds, but not 
all of them like or are capable of handling the load once they're used 
as feeds.

Axel