# Stopping a flash caching http requests, without changing the swf itself

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stopping-a-flash-caching-http-requests-without-changing-the-swf-itself/309376
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**Created:** [May 13, 2010, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stopping-a-flash-caching-http-requests-without-changing-the-swf-itself/309376 "2010-05-13T10:15:08Z")
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### Author: ![Iamthejuggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@Iamthejuggler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Iamthejuggler)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2010, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stopping-a-flash-caching-http-requests-without-changing-the-swf-itself/309376/1 "2010-05-13T10:15:08Z")

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I have a flash app which displays a bunch of images from a server, but i need to be able to stop these images from caching (as we are changing them and the client is seeing the older versions, their intranet is caching or something). I know the usual solution is to add a hacky extra parameter, but I don’t have a tag of the code from their version (i know, my bad!) so i’m wondering if there’s a way of externally telling a swf to not cache http requests, or alter the requests in some way. Either javascript or from another hidden swf? Maybe a parameter when embedding the flash object?

Any help would be hugely appreciated!