# Making external text files expire?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-external-text-files-expire/123332>\
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**Created:** [September 22, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-external-text-files-expire/123332 "2004-09-22T18:10:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![JP\_West](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@JP\_West](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JP_West)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-external-text-files-expire/123332/1 "2004-09-22T18:10:58Z")

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I’m loading an external text file into my MC, I can get that to work perfectly… but the problem lies in the the browser caching the text and thusly not displaying changes made to the file.

How do I make my text files expire in the browser cache, or failing that force the browser to either reload the file or not cache it in the first place?