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How to clear Web cache with internal browser?

I'm testing a web application where I'm changing the source and then continue testing. My changes are not reflected in iTest; if I do a snapshot then additions I have made are not present.

 

I somehow cleared the cache in 3.2 by browsing to about:config and changing some "cache" entries, but in 3.3 I can't get this to work. How can I either clear the cache, or else stop caching?

 

Thanks,

Chris

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ChrisB,

 

When you say you are changing the source, does that mean you are changing it via injecting javascript on the page using 'eval' action? 

Or arey ou actually changing the web page code directly on the server?

 

Does the page see your changes when you refresh the page?

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I'm changing the actual HTML source in a text editor. I need iTest to get the new page that is served up from the web server, but it seems to be using a cached copy. How can I clear the cache, or disable caching altogether?

 

Regards,

chris

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Go to "about:config" 

Set "browser.cache.memory.enable" to false

Set "browser.cache.disk.enable" to false

 

This *should* do the trick.  

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We just did that in 3.2 and it worked great. We'll try it in 3.3 as well shortly. Thanks!

 

Regards,

chris

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