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Anonymous
November 24, 2009
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loading identical swfs in a browser

  • November 24, 2009
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I want to embed multiple swfs on a single page. they will be identical. i was wondering if browsers will redownload the swf each time or store the first one and retrieve the others locally? if they re-download it, is there a way to tell the browser that it can use the same one?

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Correct answer Goshine

it will not .. however you can use javascript to tell the browser not to cache the file

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Ned Murphy
Ned Murphy
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November 24, 2009

Have you tried it to see if it behaves to your liking?  I don't know of any way to tell a browser how to manage loading things, but I think that it can recognize that it has already loaded something and look to get it from that resource instead of reloading it.

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Anonymous
November 24, 2009

i guess i will have experiment on it...i didnt want to work on the swf and then find that the page will slowly load up the same swf again and again...

Goshine
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Inspiring
November 29, 2009

it will not .. however you can use javascript to tell the browser not to cache the file

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