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By Stephen Chapman, About.com Guide to JavaScript

Caching of Requests

Sunday May 17, 2009
Many people misunderstand the real difference between GET and POST

One problem with using GET requests with Ajax is that such requests were designed to retrieve static information. This means that some browsers will cache the response from the first request and return that again for the next call. Not a very good way of retrieving a dynamically changing value from the server. There are two ways to fix this problem as this fourteenth Ajax tutorial demonstrates.

Caching of Requests
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