Prevent browser caching of AJAX call result

Question

It looks like if I load dynamic content using $.get(), the result is cached in browser.

Adding some random string in QueryString seems to solve this iss

Answer 1

Personally I feel that the query string method is more reliable than trying to set headers on the server - there's no guarantee that a proxy or browser won't just cache it anyway (some browsers are worse than others - naming no names).

I usually use Math.random() but I don't see anything wrong with using the date (you shouldn't be doing AJAX requests fast enough to get the same value twice).