Re: checking cache

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Active Discovery Development said the following on 8/12/2007 9:44 PM:
"Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Xns99886AEFC1922eejj99@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Active Discovery Development wrote on 10 aug 2007 in
microsoft.public.scripting.jscript:

hello everyone!

i just want to ask if cache checking is possible in javascript?
For an image?

No that would be a breach of security.

You could try to measure the loading time though.
If it is unrealisticly short, then ....

thanks for replying.. so cache checking is not possible, then how to measure the loading time? do you have any idea?

Set a variable to the current time.
Retrieve the file.
Set a second variable to the current time.
Subtract the two times.

var start = new Date().getTime()
var someImage = new Image()
someImage.src = "theFile.ext"
someImage.onload = checkIt
function checkIt(){
var end = new Date().getTime()
var totalTime = end - start
alert('It took about ' + totalTime + 'milliseconds to do that')
}
Untested but the steps are there.

If totalTime is 1 second and the file is .5 mb's then you can reasonably assume it was in the cache. If it is longer, then it wasn't but now it is.

Anything you do to try to detect whether a file is in the cache or not is going to put it in the cache if it isn't already there so the timing becomes an exercise in academia and not worth a whole lot.
--
Randy
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